A noniterative method for locating soft faults in complex wire networks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1010-1019

  Abboud, Layane ^a   Cozza, Andrea ^a   Pichon, Lionel ^b  

^a SUPELEC   (France)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Complex wire networks; Fault location; Noniterative methods; Soft faults; Time reversal operator

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FAULT LOCATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRE;

COMPLEX WIRE; EXCITATION SIGNALS; HARD FAULTS; NON-ITERATIVE METHOD; SIMPLE NETWORKS; SOFT FAULTS; TIME-REVERSAL OPERATOR; TIME-REVERSED;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 84875069208     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2013.2237796     Document Type: Article

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