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Intelligent Detection of Railway Axles Fatigue Crack Using Acoustic Emission-Stacked Denoising Autoencoders

Li Lin, Shuang Zhao, Xiaowen Tang, Wei Zhao

Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation· Volume 44· Issue 4
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