Real-time nondestructive evaluation of fiber composite laminates using low-frequency Lamb waves

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2026-2033

  Díaz Valdés, Sergio H ^a   Soutis, Costas ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACTUATORS; BEAMS AND GIRDERS; DELAMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; RESONANCE;

LAMB WAVES; MECHANICAL RESONANCE;

ELASTIC WAVES;

ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; DEVICE; EVALUATION; FIBER; MEASUREMENT; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; VELOCITY;

DELAMINATION; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; INSPECTION; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE;

EID: 0036091058     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1466870     Document Type: Article

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