Ultrasonic monitoring of erosion/corrosion thinning rates in industrial piping systems

Ultrasonics

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1251-1258

  Honarvar, Farhang ^a,b   Salehi, Farzaneh ^a   Safavi, Vahid ^b   Mokhtari, Arman ^a   Sinclair, Anthony N ^b  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corrosion measurement; Cross correlation; Model based estimation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CORROSION MEASUREMENTS; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; MODEL-BASED ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIAL CURVE FITTING; POWER GENERATION INDUSTRIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; ULTRASONIC MONITORING;

CURVE FITTING; ESTIMATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC TESTING;

EID: 84878603214     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2013.03.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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