Fundamental lamb mode-based delamination detection for CF/EP composite laminates using distributed piezoelectrics

Structural Health Monitoring

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-68

  Su, Zhongqing ^a   Ye, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fibre reinforced composite; Finite element method (FEM); Lamb wave; Structural health monitoring (SHM); Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 17644416236     PISSN: 14759217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1475921704041874     Document Type: Article

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