Detection of fiber direction in composites by means of a high-frequency wide-bounded ultrasonic beam and schlieren photography

Research in Nondestructive Evaluation

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 55-64

  Declercq, Nico F ^a,b   Teklu, A ^a   Breazeale, M A ^a   Hasse, Roger D ^a   Degrieck, Joris ^b   Leroy, Oswald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alignment; Composites; Defects; Fiber direction; Schlieren photography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; DEFECTS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFRACTION; EPOXY RESINS; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; PHOTOGRAPHY; STIFFNESS; ULTRASONIC REFLECTION; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

FIBER DENSITY; FIBER DIRECTION; HIGH-FREQUENCY WIDE-BOUNDED ULTRASONIC BEAM; SCHLIEREN PHOTOGRAPHY; UNIDIRECTIONAL CARBON FIBER REINFORCED EPOXY; UNIDIRECTIONAL GLASS FIBER REINFORCED EPOXY;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 23444435986     PISSN: 09349847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09349840591003212     Document Type: Article

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