Interaction of rectangular open-ended waveguides with surface tilted long cracks in metals

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2191-2196

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

^a IEEE   (Iran)

^b Civil Aviation Technology College   (Iran)

^c AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Metal; Microwave nondestructive testing (MNDT); Tilted crack; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING (MNDT); OPEN ENDED WAVEGUIDES; STANDING WAVE NULLS; TILTED CRACKS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE DECODING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33947315935     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.884282     Document Type: Article

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