Tile-wall bonding integrity inspection based on time-domain features of impact acoustics

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 557-566

  Tong, F ^a   Tso, S K ^b   Xu, X M ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Acceleration sounds; Artificial neural network; Bonding integrity; Impact acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; TILE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ACCELERATION SOUNDS; BONDING INTEGRITY; IMPACT ACOUSTICS;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS;

EID: 33750686992     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2005.12.035     Document Type: Article

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