Locating air leaks in manned spacecraft using structure-borne noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3484-3492

  Holland, Stephen D ^a,b   Chimenti, D E ^a   Roberts, Ron ^a   Strei, Michael ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CORRELATION METHODS; LEAK DETECTION; METEORITES; SENSOR ARRAYS; SPACE DEBRIS; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; VACUUM;

DISTRIBUTED SENSORS; LEAK NOISE; MICROMETEORITE; ULTRASONIC NOISE;

SPACECRAFT;

ALUMINUM;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND; VACUUM; WAVEFORM;

AIR; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; NOISE; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE SIMULATION; SPACECRAFT; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 34249870603     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2722051     Document Type: Article

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