Double-channel, frequency-steered acoustic transducer with 2-D imaging capabilities

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1430-1441

  Baravelli, Emanuele ^a,b   Senesi, Matteo ^a   Ruzzene, Massimo ^a   De Marchi, Luca ^b   Speciale, Nicolò ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EVENTS; ACOUSTIC SENSORS; ACOUSTIC SOURCES; ACTIVE INTERROGATION; BEAM-STEERING; DIRECTIONAL PROPERTIES; DISCRETE ARRAYS; DOUBLE-CHANNEL; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FREQUENCY WARPING; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; GUIDED WAVE INSPECTION; HALF-PLANES; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; IMAGING SCHEMES; LOCALIZATION SCHEMES; MEASUREMENT GRIDS; PITCH-CATCH; PULSE ECHOES; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SCANNING LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SPECTROGRAMS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH; TWO-CHANNEL; WAVENUMBER SPACES;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTICS; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 79960487988     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1962     Document Type: Article

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