Health monitoring of a thermal protection system using lamb waves

Structural Health Monitoring

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-45

  Kundu, Tribikram ^a   Das, Samik ^a   Jata, Kumar V ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Delamination defect; Guided wave; Impact; Lamb wave; Passive monitoring; Thermal protection system (TPS); Ultrasonic transducers

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549094314     PISSN: 14759217     EISSN: 17413168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1475921708090558     Document Type: Article

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