Double frequency piezoelectric transducer design for harmonic imaging purposes in NDT

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 980-986

  De Espinosa, Francisco Montero ^a   Martíez, Oscar ^a   Segura, Luis Elvira ^a   Gómez Ullate, Luis ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION MODES; HARMONIC IMAGING; MATCHING LAYERS; RECEPTION MODES;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PRODUCT DESIGN;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 23244446032     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1504020     Document Type: Article

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