Experimental Enhancements of Leaky Lamb Wave Dispersion Data Acquisition and Implementation Challenges to NDT of Composites

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 801-806

  Bar Cohen, Yoseph ^a   Lih, Shyh Shiuh ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Composites; Dispersion curves; Leaky lamb waves; NDT; Stiffness constants

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE JOINTS; DATA ACQUISITION; DISPERSIONS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SURFACE WAVES; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

BONDED JOINT; COMPOSITE JOINT; COMPOSITES MATERIAL; DISPERSION CURVES; DISPERSION DATA; LEAKY LAMB WAVES; LEAKY WAVES; MATURITY LEVELS; STIFFNESS CONSTANTS; WAVE DISPERSION;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 0346684412     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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