Air coupled ultrasonic testing of railroad rails

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1431-1437

  McNamara, John ^a   Di Scalea, Francesco Lanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air coupled ultrasonics; Rail testing; Resonance method

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; FLANGES; LABORATORIES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

RESONANT STANDING WAVES;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

EID: 0036904626     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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