Dispersion analysis of Lamb waves and damage detection for aluminum structures using ridge in the time-scale domain

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Li, Fucai ^a,b   Meng, Guang ^a   Ye, Lin ^c   Lu, Ye ^c   Kageyama, Kazuro ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aluminum structures; Damage detection; Lamb wave; Ridge; The time scale domain

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DAMAGE DETECTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; LIGHT VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVES; TIME MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC WAVES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ALUMINUM STRUCTURES; DAMAGE LOCALIZATION; DISPERSION ANALYSIS; DISPERSION CURVES; EXCITATION FREQUENCY; OPTIMAL MOTHER WAVELET; RIDGE; TIME-SCALES;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 70350660918     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/20/9/095704     Document Type: Article

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