Experimental characterization of periodic frequency-steerable arrays for structural health monitoring

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Senesi, Matteo ^a   Xu, Buli ^a   Ruzzene, Massimo ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY DESIGN; ARRAY ELEMENTS; BEAM-STEERING; DIRECTIONAL PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; INDIVIDUAL CONTROL; INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; LAY-OUT; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; PHASED ARRAYS; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; SPATIAL DIRECTION; SPATIAL FILTERS; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES; TUNING CAPABILITY; WAVE MODES; WAVE NUMBERS; WELL-ESTABLISHED TECHNIQUES;

MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); TUNING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 77951247381     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/19/5/055026     Document Type: Article

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