Design and characterization of the CLoVER transducer for structural health monitoring

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6935, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Salas, Ken I ^a   Cesnik, Carlos E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage interrogation; Guided waves; Piezocomposite transducers; Structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

COMPOSITE LONG-RANGE VARIABLE-DIRECTION EMITTING RADAR (CLOVER) TRANSDUCER; DAMAGE INTERROGATION; DAMAGE PROGNOSIS SYSTEMS; PIEZOCOMPOSITE TRANSDUCERS;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 44349161728     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.775954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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