Fracture Characteristics of AISI D2 Tool Steel at Different Tempering Temperatures Using Acoustic Emission and Fuzzy C-Means Clustering

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2205-2217

  Mohamad, Fotouhi ^a   Cevat, Teymuri Sindi ^a   Mehdi, Ahmadi ^a   Farzad, Pashmforoush ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Failure analysis; Fuzzy C means clustering; Heat treatments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880724801     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13369-013-0579-0     Document Type: Article

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