Ultrasonic thickness measurement of multilayered aluminum foam precursor material

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2846-2855

  Raišutis, Renaldas ^a   Kažys, Rymantas ^a   Mažeika, Liudas ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Iterative deconvolution; Metallic foams; Multilayered materials; Optimization; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM POWDER METALLURGY; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; CONVOLUTION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; GAGES; LIGHT METALS; PROCESS CONTROL; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; REFLECTION; THICKNESS GAGES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ADJACENT LAYERS; AEROSPACE AND AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES; ALUMINUM FOAMS; CRASH ENERGY ABSORPTIONS; DECONVOLUTION TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FOAM STRUCTURES; FOAMING PROCESSES; ITERATIVE DECONVOLUTION; LIGHTWEIGHT CONSTRUCTIONS; MATERIAL QUALITIES; METALLIC FOAMS; MULTILAYERED; MULTILAYERED MATERIALS; NON CONTACTS; NONDESTRUCTIVE; OBJECT PARAMETERS; PRECURSOR MATERIALS; THEORETICAL ANALYSES; THIN LAYERS; TIME DOMAINS; ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUES; ULTRASOUND VELOCITIES;

FOAM CONTROL;

EID: 57049173425     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.927208     Document Type: Article

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