Fatigue Crack Detection in Metallic Members Using Ultrasonic Rayleigh Waves with Time and Frequency Analyses

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 424-431

  Halabe, Udaya B ^a   Franklin, Reynold ^b  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b Stueve Construction   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue cracks; Frequency analysis; Metals; Nondestructive testing; Power spectral density; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

CRACK DETECTION; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

AMPLITUDE MEASUREMENTS; AMPLITUDE-FREQUENCY; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; FATIGUE CRACKS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN ANALYSIS; METALLIC MEMBERS; TIME AND FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC RAYLEIGH WAVE;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 0141860755     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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