Acoustic lens to measure wave velocities with the complex V(z) curve method

NDT and E International

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 219-224

  Nishida, Masahiro ^a,c   Endo, Tomio ^b   Adachi, Tadaharu ^a   Matsumoto, Hiroyuki ^a,d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OLYMPUS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; GLASS; QUARTZ; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

COMPLEX CURVE METHOD;

LENSES;

EID: 0032613861     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-8695(98)00048-6     Document Type: Article

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