Ultrasonic NDE of composite material structures using wavelet coefficients

NDT and E International

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 31-37

  Legendre, S ^a   Goyette, J ^a   Massicotte, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

WAVELET-BASE METHOD;

ULTRASONIC TESTING;

EID: 0035148683     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-8695(00)00029-3     Document Type: Article

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