A simplified ultrasonic immersior technigue for materials evaluation

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 854-859

  Xiang, D ^a   Hsu, N N ^a   Blessing, G V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaky wave; Line focus transducer; Material characterization; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTICS; CERAMIC COATINGS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; PLASMA SPRAYING; SPRAYED COATINGS; SURFACE DEFECTS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ANISOTROPY; CRACK PROPAGATION; MATERIALS TESTING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSDUCERS;

BULK WAVES; LEAKY WAVES; LEAKY-WAVE; LINE-FOCUS; LINE-FOCUS TRANSDUCER; MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION; MATERIALS EVALUATION; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE TRANSDUCERS; SOLID MATERIAL; ULTRASONIC IMMERSION TECHNIQUE;

TRANSDUCERS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

LEAKY WAVES; LINE FOCUS POLYVINYLIDENE FLOURIDE TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMMERSION METHOD;

EID: 0032118843     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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