Acoustic emission transducers-development of a facility for traceable out-of-plane displacement calibration

Ultrasonics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 343-350

  Theobald, P D ^a   Esward, T J ^a   Dowson, S P ^a   Preston, R C ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Calibration; Interferometer; Measurement; Transducer

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; BANDWIDTH; CALIBRATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION SENSORS; ACOUSTIC EMISSION TRANSDUCERS; FREQUENCY SPECTRUM; LASER INTERFEROMETERS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 13944252967     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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