Locating the crack tip of a surface-breaking crack: Part I. Line crack

Ultrasonics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 803-811

  Kuo, M K ^a   Lin, T R ^a   Liu, P L ^a   Wu, T T ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Crack length measurement; Crack tip localization; Non destructive evaluation; Time of flight diffraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTIMIZATION; ULTRASONIC DIFFRACTION;

CRACK TIP LOCALIZATION; GAUSSIAN ERROR;

CRACKS;

EID: 0032066572     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(98)00011-0     Document Type: Article

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