Omnidirectional guided wave PWAS phased array for thin-wall structure damage detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6529 PART 2, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yu, Lingyu ^a   Giurgiutiu, Victor ^a   Kendall, James R ^b  

^a The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE SYSTEMS COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack; Damage detection; Guided waves; Omnidirectional beamforming; Phased array; Piezoelectric; Piezoelectric wafer active sensor; PWAS

Indexed keywords

OMNIDIRECTIONAL BEAMFORMING; PIEZOELECTRIC WAFER ACTIVE SENSOR; SINGLE CRACK POSITIONED; SINGLE SCANNING; STRUCTURAL INTERROGATION;

ALUMINUM; BEAMFORMING; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; SENSOR ARRAYS; SURFACE WAVES; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

EID: 35549006319     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.717738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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