Detection of rail wheel flats using wavelet approaches

Structural Health Monitoring

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-131

  Jia, S ^a   Dhanasekar, M ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Daubechies wavelets; Rail wheel flat; Signal processing; Vibration monitoring; Wavelet approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249872697     PISSN: 14759217     EISSN: 17413168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1475921706072066     Document Type: Article

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