Structural damage detection and calibration using a wavelet-kurtosis technique

Engineering Structures

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2097-2108

  Pakrashi, V ^a   Basu, B ^a   O' Connor, A ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Kurtosis; Masking; Open crack; Signal to noise ratio; Wavelets; Windowing

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CRACKS; DAMAGE DETECTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WHITE NOISE;

GAUSSIAN WHITE NOISE; OPEN CRACK; WAVELET-KURTOSIS TECHNIQUE;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; CRACKS; DAMAGE DETECTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WHITE NOISE;

CALIBRATION; CRACK; DAMAGE MECHANICS; DETECTION METHOD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547551218     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2006.10.013     Document Type: Article

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