Guided lamb waves and L-SAFT processing technique for enhanced detection and imaging of corrosion defects in plates with small depth-to-wavelength ratio

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1287-1297

  Sicard, René ^a   Chahbaz, Ahmad ^a   Goyette, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORROSION; FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC DISPERSION; ULTRASONIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FREQUENCY BANDWIDTHS; LAMB WAVES; PHASE-VELOCITY DISPERSION WAVES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING TECHNIQUE (SAFT);

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 8344235964     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1350957     Document Type: Article

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