Nondestructive evaluation of aircraft composites using transmissive terahertz time domain spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 17039-17051

  Stoik, Christopher D ^a   Bohn, Matthew J ^a   Blackshire, James L ^b  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; DELAMINATION; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PLASMONS; REFLECTOMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; AIRCRAFT COMPOSITES; BENDING STRESS; MECHANICAL DAMAGES; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION TECHNIQUES; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY;

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 54249143515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017039     Document Type: Article

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