A model of ultrasonic nondestructive testing for internal and subsurface cracks

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 2723-2733

  Bövik, Peter ^a   Boström, Anders ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CRACKS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SURFACES; TENSORS;

CHEBYSHEV FUNCTIONS; SUBSURFACE CRACKS; SURFACE BREAKING; ULTRASONIC NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING;

ELASTIC WAVES;

CRACK DETECTION; FRACTURE DETECTION; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 1842336792     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420326     Document Type: Article

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