Laser induced highly nonlinear solitary waves for structural NDE

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7647, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ni, Xianglei ^a   Garden, Ricki ^a   Rizzo, Piervincenzo ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Highly nonlinear solitary waves; Laser ultrasonic; Nondestructive evaluation; Novel actuators

Indexed keywords

BULK STRUCTURE; ENERGY SPECTRA; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; LASER INDUCED; LASER ULTRASONIC; LASER ULTRASONICS; LASER-PULSE ENERGY; MECHANICAL STRESS; NON-CONTACT; SOLITARY WAVE; STRESS WAVE;

ACTUATORS; CONCRETE BRIDGES; ELASTIC WAVES; LASER PULSES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SENSORS; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SPECTROSCOPY; STRESSES; ULTRASONICS; WAVES;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 77953524798     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.847428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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