Advanced echo-dynamic measures for the characterisation of multiple ultrasonic signals in aircraft structures

Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 144-148

  Aldrin, John C ^a   Kropas Hughes, Claudia V ^b   Knopp, Jeremy ^c   Mandeville, John ^d   Judd, David ^d   Lindgren, Eric ^c  

^a Computational Tools ^*  (United States)

^b Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES; ECHO-DYNAMIC MEASURES; MULTIPLE ULTRASONIC SIGNALS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 33645110220     PISSN: 13542575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1784/insi.2006.48.3.144     Document Type: Article

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