Inversion technique for an all-optical inspection of materials' elastic properties

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6167, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sorazu, Borja ^a   Culshaw, Brian ^b   Atique, Syed H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dispersion curves; Elastic properties; Inversion process; Lamb waves; Non destructive testing; Structural Health Monitoring

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); ELASTICITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL TESTING; POISSON RATIO; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

DISPERSION CURVES; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; INVERSION PROCESS; LAMB WAVES; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 33745865538     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.658433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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