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L. Travassos, S. L. Avila, N. Ida, C. Vollaire, and A. Nicolas, Design of Optimal GPR Antennas for Concrete Evaluation, IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine, vol.2, issue.2, pp.1-4, 2007.

L. Travassos, N. Ida, C. Vollaire, and A. Nicolas, Solution of Maxwell's Equations for the Simulation and Optimization of the Radar Assessment of Concrete Structures, Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, vol.3, issue.3
DOI : 10.1002/1098-2760(20001205)27:5<334::AID-MOP14>3.0.CO;2-A

L. Travassos, N. Ida, C. Vollaire, and A. Nicolas, Time-Domain Modeling of Radar Assessment of Concrete: a Parametric Study, accepted to 16th COMPUMAG -IEEE Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, 2007.

L. Travassos, D. A. Vieira, N. Ida, C. Vollaire, and A. Nicolas, Inverse Algorithms for the GPR Assessment of Concrete Structures, accepted to 16th COMPUMAG -IEEE Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, 2007.
DOI : 10.1109/TMAG.2007.916661

URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00358856

L. Travassos, D. A. Vieira, N. Ida, C. Vollaire, and A. Nicolas, Characterization of Inclusions in a non-homogeneous GPR Problem by Neural Networks, accepted to 16th COMPUMAG -IEEE Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, 2007.