Load measurement and health monitoring in cable stays via guided wave magnetostrictive ultrasonics

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1057-1065

  Rizzo, Piervincenzo ^a   Di Scalea, Francesco Lanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustoelasticity; Guided waves; Laser ultrasound; Magnetostriction; Multiwire strands; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

HEALTH MONITORING; LASER ULTRASOUND; MULTIWIRES STRANDS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ELASTICITY; LASER APPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 8644229212     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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