Guided waves in a plate with linearly varying thickness: Experimental and numerical results

Ultrasonics

Volumn 42, Issue 1-9, 2004, Pages 807-812

  El Kettani, Ech Cherif ^a   Luppe F ^a   Guillet, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

Author keywords

Adiabatic modes; Conversion; Reflection; Thickness cut off

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCIES; LASERS;

ADIABATIC MODES; CONVERSION; THICKNESS CUT-OFF;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 1642601613     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2004.01.071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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