On the reproducibility of transducer coupling for acoustic emission testing

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 13-14, Issue , 2006, Pages 117-124

  Hensman, J J ^a   Cristodaro, C V ^b   Pierce, S G ^a   Worden, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Cross correlation; Fatigue; Transducer coupling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

COUPLING CONDITIONS; CROSS CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; POINT BENDING; TRANSDUCER COUPLING;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING;

EID: 33845964752     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/0-87849-420-0.117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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