The effect of experimental conditions on acousto-ultrasonic reproducibility

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4704, Issue , 2002, Pages 177-186

  Gyekenyesi, Andrew L ^a   Harmon, Laura M ^a   Kautz, Harold E ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTOULTRASONIC REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING;

EID: 0036379119     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.470723     Document Type: Article

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