Gan et al., 2004 - Google Patents
A swept frequency multiplication technique for air-coupled ultrasonic NDEGan et al., 2004
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- 2461580141412243505
- Author
- Gan T
- Hutchins D
- Green R
- Publication year
- Publication venue
- IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
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A new technique has been investigated for improving the signals that can be obtained in air- coupled nondestruction evaluation (NDE). This relies on the wide bandwidth available from polymer-filmed capacitive transducers. The technique relies on a swept-frequency" chirp" …
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