Interaction of an open-ended rectangular waveguide probe with an arbitrary-shape surface crack in a lossy conductor

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3706-3711

  Mazlumi, Farhad ^b   Sadeghi, Seyed H Hesamedin ^a,c,d   Moini, Rouzbeh ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Iran)

^b Civil Aviation Technology College   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Lossy systems; Mode matching methods; Nondestructive testing; Rectangular waveguides

Indexed keywords

CRACK DEPTH MEASUREMENT; LOSSY SYSTEMS; MODE-MATCHING METHODS;

CRACKS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33749873172     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.882879     Document Type: Article

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