Statistics of aberrations in polycrystalline materials

This thesis is concerned with the propagation of elastic waves in polycrystalline materials. In particular, in establishing a relationship between the statistical properties of the wavefield and the statistical properties of the material via a correlation function. Here the study of elastic waves ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hernandez, J. A.
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2007
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13948/
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Summary:This thesis is concerned with the propagation of elastic waves in polycrystalline materials. In particular, in establishing a relationship between the statistical properties of the wavefield and the statistical properties of the material via a correlation function. Here the study of elastic waves has been restricted to surface acoustic waves (SAWs), mainly because they are readily accessible using an optical scanning acoustic microscope (OSAM)