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A Comparative Study on Three Different Transducers for the
Measurement of Nonlinear Solitary Waves NiXianglei CaiLuyao
RizzoPiervincenzo* Laboratory for Nondestructive Evaluation and
Structural Health Monitoring Studies, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 3700 O'Hara
Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; E-Mails: (X.N.); (L.C.)
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authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. 2013   In the last
decade there has been an increasing interest in the use of
highly- and weakly- nonlinear solitary waves in engineering and
physics. Nonlinear solitary waves can form and travel in
nonlinear systems such as one-dimensional chains of particles,
where they are conventionally generated by