Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition based methodology for ultrasonic testing of coarse grain austenitic stainless steels

Ultrasonics

Volumn 57, Issue C, 2015, Pages 167-178

  Sharma, Govind K ^a   Kumar, Anish ^a   Jayakumar, T ^a   Rao, B Purnachandra ^a   Mariyappa, N ^b  

^a INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Austenitic stainless steel; Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD); Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs); Signal minimisation; Ultrasonic scattering

Indexed keywords

AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL; DEFECTS; FUNCTIONS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PROBES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STAINLESS STEEL; STEEL RESEARCH; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

DETECTION OF DEFECTS; ENSEMBLE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; ENSEMBLE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITIONS (EEMD); FLAT-BOTTOM HOLE; INTRINSIC MODE FUNCTIONS; MINIMISATION; PROBE FREQUENCY; ULTRASONIC SIGNALS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUSTENITIC STEEL; STAINLESS STEEL;

ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STAINLESS STEEL; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84925283365     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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