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Understanding Acoustic Emission Testing- Reading 1 Part B-A

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highly damped, nonmetallic<br />

material ~.0001 s<br />

lightly damped metallic<br />

material, ~.001 s.<br />

Decay time<br />

Decay Time:<br />

highly damped, nonmetallic material → order of 100 microseconds (10 -6 s)<br />

lightly damped metallic material → tens of milliseconds (10 -3 s)<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang

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