Scattering of the fundamental shear horizontal guided wave by a part-thickness crack in an isotropic plate

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2895-2904

  Rajagopal, P ^a   Lowe, M J S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK DEPTHS; CRACK FACES; CRACK LENGTHS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENTS; FREQUENCY REGIMES; GENERAL FRAMEWORKS; GUIDED MODES; HIGH FREQUENCIES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INCIDENT BEAMS; ISOTROPIC PLATES; OPERATING FREQUENCIES; PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS; REFLECTED FIELDS; SCALE FACTORS; SHEAR HORIZONTAL GUIDED WAVES; SHEAR HORIZONTALS; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; THEORETICAL ANALYSES; THROUGH-THICKNESS CRACKS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; SCATTERING;

CRACKS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; THEORETICAL STUDY; THICKNESS;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOUND; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 56749165559     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2982410     Document Type: Article

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