Ultrasonic NDE of railroad tracks: Air-coupled cross-sectional inspection and long-range inspection

Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 394-401

  Lanza di Scalea, Francesco ^a   McNamara, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

LONGITUDINAL DEFECTS;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

EID: 0038512151     PISSN: 13542575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1784/insi.45.6.394.52890     Document Type: Article

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