Improved titanium billet inspection sensitivity through optimized phased array design, part II: Experimental validation and comparative study with multizone

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 820 I, Issue , 2006, Pages 861-868

  Hassan, W ^a   Vensel, F ^a   Knowles, B ^a   Lupien, V ^b  

^a HONEYWELL   (United States)

^b Acoustic Ideas Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Billets; Forgings; Inspection; Multi zone; Phased arrays; Pulse volume; Sensitivity; Signal to noise ratio; Ti 6Al 4V; Transducers; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845441990     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2184616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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