Steel billet inspection using laser-EMAT system

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1501-1506

  Jian, X ^a   Baillie, I ^a   Dixon, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; BILLET MILLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAYLEIGH WAVES; STEEL; SURFACE DEFECTS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

BULK WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER (EMAT); LASER GENERATED ULTRASONIC FIELD; STEEL BILLET INSPECTION;

INSPECTION;

EID: 33947678737     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/40/5/029     Document Type: Article

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