Microwave nondestructive detection of longitudinal cracks in pipe with U-bend and prediction of its location by signal processing

Studies in Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics

Volumn 31, Issue , 2008, Pages 154-161

  Abbasi, Kavoos ^a   Ito, Satoshi ^a   Hashizume, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

longitudinal crack; Microwave; Time of flight (TOF)

Indexed keywords

CRACK LOCATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS; GROUP VELOCITIES; IN-PIPE; INVERSE FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LONGITUDINAL CRACKS; MICROWAVE NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; NONDESTRUCTIVE DETECTION; REFLECTED WAVES; TIME DOMAIN; TIME OF FLIGHT; WAVE SPECTRA;

CRACK DETECTION; CRACKS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MICROWAVES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MICROWAVE TUBES;

EID: 70349180045     PISSN: 13837281     EISSN: 18798322     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-896-0-154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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