The Excitation and Detection of Lamb Waves with Planar Coil Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2370-2383

  Wilcox, Paul D ^a   Lowe, Michael J S ^b   Cawley, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33644871911     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1563281     Document Type: Article

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