Localizing two acoustic emission sources simultaneously using beamforming and singular value decomposition

Tian He1, Ying Xie1, Yingchun Shan1

  • 1School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, PR China.

Ultrasonics
|January 14, 2018
PubMed

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