An acousto-ultrasonic approach is used to explore the damage development in tensile shear spot welds during fatigue loading. There is reasonable data to support the hypothesis that a decrease in an AU signal is indicative of the presence of an internal crack and could be used for monitoring and evaluation purposes. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/36997 |
| Date | 25 September 1997 |
| Creators | Gero, Brian Matthew III |
| Contributors | Engineering Mechanics, Duke, John C. Jr., Dowling, Norman E., Henneke, Edmund G. II |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | final.pdf |
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