A technique for the positioning of cracks detected by ultrasound through an austenitic cladding

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1115-1121

  Haïat, Guillaume ^a   Calmon, Pierre ^a   Lasserre, Frederic ^b  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b AREVA NP   (France)

Author keywords

Cladded material; Crack identification; Inverse problem; Model based inversion; Nondestructive testing; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CLADDING (COATING); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; ULTRASONICS;

CLADDED MATERIAL; CRACK IDENTIFICATION; MODEL BASED INVERSION;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 28744459286     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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