Ultrasonic guided waves-based monitoring of rail head: Laboratory and field tests

Advances in Civil Engineering

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rizzo, Piervincenzo ^a   Cammarata, Marcello ^a,b   Bartoli, Ivan ^c   Di Scalea, Francesco Lanza ^c   Salamone, Salvatore ^c   Coccia, Stefano ^c   Phillips, Robert ^c  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

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EID: 78549270475     PISSN: 16878086     EISSN: 16878094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/291293     Document Type: Article

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