Estimating crack size and location in a steel plate using ultrasonic signals and CFBP neural networks

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1751-1754

  Sahoo, Ajit K ^a   Zhang, Yonghong ^a   Zuo, Ming J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ANN; CFBP; Crack location; Crack size; FFBP; Steel plate; Ultrasonic

Indexed keywords

ANN; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; CFBP; CRACK LOCATION; CRACK LOCATIONS; CRACK SIZE; CRACK SIZES; ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING; FEED-FORWARD BACK-PROPAGATION; FFBP; NEURAL NETWORK MODELLING; PEAK AMPLITUDES; STEEL PLATE; STEEL PLATES; TIME -OF-FLIGHT; ULTRASONIC; ULTRASONIC ECHO SIGNALS; ULTRASONIC SIGNALS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BACKPROPAGATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; STEEL; TECHNOLOGY; ULTRASONICS; VEGETATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 51849102991     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2008.4564844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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