Non-contact ultrasonic inspection of skin/core bond in honeycomb with lamb waves

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 749-752

  Cosenza, Claudio ^a   Cerniglia, Donatella ^b   Djordjevic, B Boro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS;

AIR-COUPLED CAPACITANCE TRANSDUCER; LAMB WAVES; LENTICULAR ARRAY; NON-CONTACT ULTRASONIC INSPECTION; SKIN-CORE BOND;

ULTRASONIC TESTING;

EID: 0036995209     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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