Estimation of wooden cross-arm integrity using artificial neural networks and laser vibrometry

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1539-1544

  Stack, Jason R ^a   Harley, Ronald G ^b   Springer, Paul ^b   Mahaffey, James A ^c  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Air2 LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Data compression; Laser measurements; Neural networks; Nondestructive testing; Self organizing feature maps; Transmission lines

Indexed keywords

DATA COMPRESSION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ESTIMATION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; LASER APPLICATIONS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

LASER MEASUREMENT; LASER VIBROMETER; VIBRATION SPECTRA;

ELECTRIC LINE SUPPORTS;

EID: 0141952106     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2003.817820     Document Type: Article

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