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Signal processing in mechanical impedance analysis (MIA) pulse flaw detectors by means of cross correlation function (CCF) is described. Calculations are carried out for two types of signals, used in operation with single contact and twin contact probes. It is shown that thi.s processing can increase the sensitivity and signal to noise ratio. 

In this report problem of information processing in MIA pulse flaw detectors by means of cross correlation function is considered. Such processing promises to increase the sensitivity and to reduce the noises, mainly the frictional ones. 

A time cross-correlation function between dynamic variables A (it) and B(t) is defined in a similar way ... 

In the case where x and y are the same, C (r) is called an autocorrelation function, if they are different, it is called a cross-correlation function. For an autocorrelation function, the initial value at t = to is 1, and it approaches 0 as t oo. How fast it approaches 0 is measured by the relaxation time. The Fourier transforms of such correlation functions are often related to experimentally observed spectra, the far infrared spectrum of a solvent, for example, is the Foiuier transform of the dipole autocorrelation function. ... 

Efficient techniques which can be applied also for spectra comparisons are subtraction (TS-RS) and cross-correlation of TS and RS (Danzer et al. [1991]). The cross-correlation function (CCF) is calculated according to the relationship... 

As seen from the above theoretical developments, accessing geometrical (and stereochemical) information implies at least an estimation of the dynamical part of the various relaxation parameters. The latter is represented by spectral densities which rest on the calculation of the Fourier transform of auto- or cross-correlation functions. These calculations require necessarily a model for describing molecular reorientation... 

The time delay between two signals can be estimated using different methods among them the most popular is finding the maximum of the cross-correlation function... 

At the receiver the cross-correlation function between the transmitted and the received signal is calculated by... 

When l l, the above gives the so-called cross-correlation functions and the associated cross-correlation rates (longitudinal and transverse). Crosscorrelation functions arise from the interference between two relaxation mechanisms (e.g., between the dipole-dipole and the chemical shielding anisotropy interactions, or between the anisotropies of chemical shieldings of two nuclei, etc.).40 When l = 1=2, one has the autocorrelation functions G2m(r) or simply... 

A commonly used approach for computing the transition amplitudes is to approximate the propagator in the Krylov subspace, in a similar spirit to the time-dependent wave packet approach.7 For example, the Lanczos-based QMR has been used for U(H) = (E — H)-1 when calculating S-matrix elements from an initial channel (%m )-93 97 The transition amplitudes to all final channels (Xm) can be computed from the cross-correlation functions, namely their overlaps with the recurring vectors. Since the initial vector is given by xmo only a column of the S-matrix can be obtained from a single Lanczos recursion. 

The efficient FFT scheme can be used to extract the eigenspectrum from the correlation function. We note in passing that the eigenspectrum can also be obtained using cross-correlation functions C k = pTq, where the vector p can be chosen arbitrarily. 

The application of the Chebyshev recursion to complex-symmetric problems is more restricted because Chebyshev polynomials may diverge outside the real axis. Nevertheless, eigenvalues of a complex-symmetric matrix that are close to the real energy axis can be obtained using the FD method based on the damped Chebyshev recursion.155,215 For broad and even overlapping resonances, it has been shown that the use of multiple cross-correlation functions may be beneficial.216... 

Cross-Correlation Functions by the Filter Diagonalization Method. 

The limit of this expression gives us the familiar definition for the cross-correlation function with the limits of integration redefined for a distribution about zero. 

Some basic definitions are necessary. The definition of a cross-correlation function (CCF) of two non-zero average power signals, x(t) and y(t), is ... 

The cross-correlation function, G, is obtained computing the inverse Fourier transform, 9 of the product of the multiplication of the transform of the first... 

The cross-correlation function G is thus the transformed image intensity pattern displaced with respect to the origin by the average displacement coordinates. The peak position is found with sub-pixel resolution by means of a Gaussian interpolator as described by Lourenco and Krothapalli [8]. 

One finds that the coarse-graining with 200 bins is insufficient for correct representation of the autocorrelation functions. On the other hand, using 1000 bins results in autocorrelation functions that are practically indistinguishable to the exact one, independently of the energy of the state in the Q2 space. The application of coarse-graining works equally well for the cross-correlation functions as for the autocorrelation functions. For further details on the application of coarse-graining for efficiently computing the correlation functions, we refer to the discussion in Ref. [41]. 

It implies two different IVR processes superimposed on each other (see Fig. 2) and a subsequent VET process. For a realistic comparison of experimental and modeled traces the simulation was convoluted with the cross correlation function of pump and probe pulses. It is... 

For the case of toluene experiments in the gas phase and in CF2CI-CFCI2 are displayed in Figs, lb and 3b. In the inset of Fig. lb the signal is shown on a shorter timescale together with the solution experiment and the cross correlation function of pump and probe pulses. The time resolved traces have been modelled as in the case of benzene. In the case of toluene the initial fast rise is less pronounced (Ain = 0.25 0.05) than for benzene. This is likely a consequence of the different FC-factors of the different FC-active modes involved which also may depend somewhat upon the probe wavelength. For toluene in the gas phase rfyR = 8.710.9 ps and rVET =500180 ps have been determined. As in the case of benzene the parameters A inn = 0.25+0.05 and t( x < 0.8 ps were kept constant for the gas phase and the solution experiment in the analysis. For toluene in solution we found t%]r = 4.710.8 ps and tvet= 2 2 ps, respectively. 

The quantity mechanical time-correlation function. The quantum-mechanical cross-correlation function CAB(k, t) of the dynamical variables Ak, Bk is defined as... 

This tells us how much energy in the original signal remains after some arbitrary delay time t. Next we compute the cross-correlation function Rxy(t), which contains information about energy shared between channel X and channel Y. 

Suzuki and Misaki, 1992] Suzuki, R. and Misaki, M. (1992). Time-scale modification of speech signals using cross-correlation functions. IEEE Trans. Consumer Elec., 38(3) 357—363. 

Autocorrelation, Autoregression, Partial Autocorrelation, and Cross-correlation Function... 

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