Application of stationary wavelet transforms to ultrasonic crack detection

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1432-1436

  Fan, Xianfeng ^a   Zuo, Ming J ^a   Wang, Xiaodong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crack detection; Cross correlation analysis; De noising; Stationary wavelet transform; Ultrasonic signal

Indexed keywords

CRACK DETECTION; NOISE ABATEMENT; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DE-NOISING; FLIGHT DISTANCE; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORM; ULTRASONIC SIGNALS; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 39049168193     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2006.277532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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