Simultaneous determination of the ultrasound velocity and the thickness of solid plates from the analysis of thickness resonances using air-coupled ultrasound

Ultrasonics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 104-109

  Gómez Álvarez Arenas, Tomás E ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air coupled ultrasound; Amplitude and phase spectroscopy; Materials characterization; Plate resonances

Indexed keywords

AIR-COUPLED ULTRASOUND; AIR-COUPLED ULTRASOUNDS; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; FRP COMPOSITE; MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS; SOLID PLATES; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND VELOCITY;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; RESONANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

POLYMER;

AIR; ARTICLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND; VEGETABLE;

AIR; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMERS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 71549152833     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2009.09.009     Document Type: Article

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