A Guided Wave Sensor Based on the Inverse Magnetostrictive Effect for Distinguishing Symmetric from Asymmetric Features in Pipes

@article{Xu2015AGW,
  title={A Guided Wave Sensor Based on the Inverse Magnetostrictive Effect for Distinguishing Symmetric from Asymmetric Features in Pipes},
  author={Jiang Xu and Xinjun Wu and Dongying Kong and Pengfei Sun},
  journal={Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)},
  year={2015},
  volume={15},
  pages={5151 - 5162},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3802357}
}
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