Pattern recognition approaches for the detection and characterization of discontinuities by eddy current testing

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 93-101

  Shyamsunder, M T ^a   Rajagopalan, C ^a   Raj, B ^a   Dewangan, S K ^a   Rao, B P C ^a   Ray, K K ^b  

^a INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

LINEAR DISCRIMINANT; MINIMUM DISTANCE; NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING TUBES; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIERS;

EDDY CURRENT TESTING;

EID: 0033892221     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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