Low-frequency pulse echo reflection of the fundamental shear horizontal mode from part-thickness elliptical defects in plates

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3485-3493

  Ma, J ^a   Cawley, P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE LENGTH; CIRCULAR DEFECTS; DEFECT CHARACTERIZATION; DEFECT LENGTH; DEFECT SHAPES; DEPTH PROFILE; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GUIDED ULTRASONIC WAVES; GUIDED WAVE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LOW FREQUENCY; PERIODIC PATTERN; PULSE ECHOES; REFLECTION RATIO; SHEAR-HORIZONTAL MODES;

ASPECT RATIO; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; REFLECTION; ULTRASONICS;

DEFECTS;

EID: 77953593342     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3409446     Document Type: Article

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