Numerical and experimental study of guided waves for detection of defects in the rail head

NDT and E International

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-100

  Coccia, Stefano ^a   Bartoli, Ivan ^b   Marzani, Alessandro ^c   Lanza Di Scalea, Francesco ^a   Salamone, Salvatore ^d   Fateh, Mahmood ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d the State University of New York   (United States)

^e FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Guided waves; Nondestructive testing; Rail defect detection; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; ARBITRARY CROSS SECTION; DETECTION OF DEFECTS; FREE VIBRATION; GEOMETRICAL COMPLEXITY; GUIDED WAVE; LOADING PATTERNS; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RAIL DEFECT DETECTION; ROBUST APPROACHES; SEMI-ANALYTICAL FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; ULTRASONIC INSPECTIONS; WAVE MODES;

DEFECTS; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INSPECTION; LASER EXCITATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RAILS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 78549286636     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2010.09.011     Document Type: Article

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