Investigations on classifying pulsed eddy current signals with a neural network

Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 608-614

  Liu, Z ^a   Forsyth, D S ^a   Lepine, B A ^a   Hammad, I ^b   Farahbakhsh, B ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b S and K Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CORROSION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUSELAGES; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

QUANTIFICATION METHODS;

EDDY CURRENT TESTING;

EID: 0141857448     PISSN: 13542575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1784/insi.45.9.608.52940     Document Type: Article

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