Fully non-contact, air-coupled generation and detection of ultrasound in concrete for nondestructive testing

It is well known that liquid coupling agents, which are commonly used in conventional ultrasonic testing to couple an ultrasonic transducer to a solid specimen, cause a number of problems including inconsistency in results and slowness of the inspection. This is especially true when the specimen su...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schempp, Fabian
Other Authors: Jacobs, Laurence J.
Format: Others
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50396