Corrosion and Erosion Monitoring of Pipes by an Ultrasonic Guided Wave Method

Advanced Ultrasonic Methods for Material and Structure Inspection

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 115-157

  Instanes, Geir ^a   Toppe, Mads ^a   Lakshminarayan, Balachander ^a   Nagy, Peter B ^b  

^a CLAMPON AS   (Norway)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse conditions; Corrosion and monitoring; External inspection techniques; Steel structures; Troublesome internal devices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855553986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470612248.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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