Scattering of the fundamental shear horizontal mode in a plate when incident at a through crack aligned in the propagation direction of the mode

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2873-2882

  Ratassepp, M ^a   Lowe, M J S ^b   Cawley, P ^b   Klauson, A ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK LENGTHS; CRACK SURFACES; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; GUIDED WAVES; MODE CONVERSIONS; PROPAGATION DIRECTIONS; RAYLEIGH; SCATTERED WAVE FIELDS; SHEAR HORIZONTALS;

FLUID DYNAMICS; REFLECTION; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

CRACK TIPS;

ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 56749171335     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2987426     Document Type: Article

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