Lamb wave tuning for piezoelectric wafer active sensor applications in in-situ structural health monitoring

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 975, Issue , 2008, Pages 896-903

  Giurgiutiu, V ^a   Yu, L ^a   Santoni, G B ^a   Xu, B ^a  

^a The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded ultrasonic structural radar; Lamb waves; Phased array; Piezoelectric wafer active sensor; PWAS; SHM; Structural health monitoring; Time reversal process; Tuning

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849100398     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2902759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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