Industrially viable non-contact ultrasound

Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 211-217

  Palmer, Stuart B ^a   Dixon, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; SHEAR WAVES; THERMOELASTICITY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS (EMAT);

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0037343524     PISSN: 13542575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1784/insi.45.3.211.53154     Document Type: Article

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