Ultrasonic lamb wave NDE system using an air coupled concave array transducer

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1282-1285

  Garcia Hernandez, M J ^a   Chavez, J A ^a   Yanez Y ^a   Kichou, H B ^a   Prego Borges, J L ^a   Salazar, J ^a   Turo, A ^a   De Montero Espinosa, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air coupled; Concave array; Lamb Waves; NDE

Indexed keywords

AIR-COUPLED; CONCAVE ARRAYS; LAMB WAVES; MICRO DEFLECTION;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; MOISTURE; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; WAVEFRONTS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 21644441355     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2004.1418024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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