The transmission of Lamb waves across adhesively bonded lap joints

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1333-1345

  Lowe, M J S ^a   Challis, R E ^b   Chan, C W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034105512     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428420     Document Type: Article

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