Material property estimation in thin plates using focused, synthetic-aperture acoustic beams

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2599-2610

  Fei, Dong ^a,b   Chimenti, D E ^a   Teles, Sorin V ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b CATERPILLAR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA PROCESSING; ELASTICITY; FUNCTIONS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SCANNING; STIFFNESS; TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC PROBES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; MATERIAL STATE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

EID: 0038033161     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1561496     Document Type: Article

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