Limitations of the fourier transform for describing test course profiles

Sound and Vibration

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 12-17

  Steinwolf, Alexander ^a   Connon III, William H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b US Army Aberdeen Test Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KURTOSIS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD); SKEWNESS; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AUTOMOBILE TESTING;

EID: 15944401766     PISSN: 15410161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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