Guided waves in elastic plates with Gaussian section variation: Experimental and numerical results

Ultrasonics

Volumn 47, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Marical, P ^a   Ech Cherif El Kettani, M ^a   Predoi, M V ^b  

^a Institut Universitaire de Technologie   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Adiabatic waves; Conversion; Lamb waves; Waveguide of varying section

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; SURFACE WAVES;

ADIABATIC WAVES; ELASTIC PLATES; GAUSSIAN MAXIMUM HEIGHT;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 36048947070     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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