Ultrasonic detection of defects in highly porous polymeric membranes

Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 651-656

  Ramaswamy, Senthilkumar ^a,b   Greenberg, Alan R ^a   Peterson, Michael ^c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b MILLIPORE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Defect detection; Membrane characterisation; Polymeric membrane morphology; Ultrasonic Reflectometry (UR); Waves in porous materials

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; MICROFILTRATION; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES; POROUS MATERIALS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

STERILE FILTRATION; ULTRASONIC REFLECTOMETRY;

ULTRASONIC TESTING;

EID: 36348938658     PISSN: 13542575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1784/insi.2007.49.11.651     Document Type: Article

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