Non-contact ultrasonic inspection of rails and signal processing for automatic defect detection and classification

Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 346-353

  di Scalea, Francesco Lanza ^a   Rizzo, Piervincenzo ^a   Coccia, Stefano ^a   Bartoli, Ivan ^a   Fateh, Mahmood ^b   Viola, Erasmo ^c   Pascale, Giovanni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHMS; CRACKS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBES; RAILROAD TRACKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AUTOMATIC PATTERN RECOGNITION; DEFECT DETECTION; NON-CONTACT ULTRASONIC INSPECTION;

INSPECTION;

EID: 20844460918     PISSN: 13542575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1784/insi.47.6.346.66449     Document Type: Article

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