Impact damage detection in composite structures using Lamb waves

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5768, Issue , 2005, Pages 295-303

  Mal, Ajit K ^a   Shih, Frank J ^b   Ricci, Fabrizio ^c   Banerjee, Sauvik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Graphite epoxy laminate; Impact damage; Lamb waves; Stiffened composite panel; Structural health monitoring; Ultrasonic NDE

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE EPOXY LAMINATE; IMPACT DAMAGE; LAMB WAVES; STIFFENED COMPOSITE PANEL; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; ULTRASONIC NDE;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; GRAPHITE; IMPACT TESTING; STRUCTURAL LOADS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

EID: 25644456652     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.600566     Document Type: Conference Paper

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