Effect of welded pipe support brackets on torsional guided wave propagation

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 935-944

  Yang, Shiuh Kuang ^a   Lee, Ping Hung ^a   Cheng, Jyin Wen ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b 6F 3   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Guided wave; Torsional mode; Welded support bracket

Indexed keywords

FASTENERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; WELDING;

DISCONTINUITY DETECTION; GUIDED-WAVE PROPAGATION; LOCALISED; PIPE TESTING; REFINERY INDUSTRY; REFLECTED SIGNAL; TORSIONAL GUIDED WAVES; TORSIONAL MODES; WELDED PIPES; WELDED SUPPORT BRACKET;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 69549124343     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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