Acoustic emission source location for steel pipe and pipeline applications: The role of arrival time estimation

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 121-133

  Shehadeh, M ^a   Steel, J A ^a   Reuben, R L ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Cross correlation; Energy; Long steel pipe; Threshold; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PIPELINES; SENSORS; STEEL PIPE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CROSS-CORRELATION TECHNIQUE; FILTERING AND THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUE;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PIPELINES; SENSORS; STEEL PIPE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 33746009956     PISSN: 09544089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/095440806X78829     Document Type: Article

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