A proposed method for fatigue crack detection and monitoring using the breathing crack phenomenon and wavelet analysis

Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 399-420

  Nguyen, Viet Khoa ^a   Olatunbosun, Oluremi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breathing crack; Closing crack; Crack detection; Crack monitoring; Fatigue crack; Wavelet analysis; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548564281     PISSN: 15593959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/jomms.2007.2.399     Document Type: Article

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