Structural health monitoring of fiber-reinforced composite plates for low-velocity impact damage using ultrasonic Lamb wave tomography

Structural Health Monitoring

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 243-253

  Soma Sekhar, B V ^a   Balasubramaniam, Krishnan ^a   Krishnamurthy, C V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Barely visible impact damages; Composite materials; Delamination; Lamb wave tomography; Low velocity impact damages; Structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747170842     PISSN: 14759217     EISSN: 17413168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1475921706067739     Document Type: Article

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