DC conductivity measurements in the Van der Pauw geometry

Author

Rietveld, G. ; Koijmans, Ch.V. ; Henderson, L.C.A. ; Hall, M.J. ; Harmon, S. ; Warnecke, P. ; Schumacher, B.

Author_Institution

Dept. Electricity & Magnetism, NMi Van Swinden Laboratorium, Delft, Netherlands

fYear

2002

fDate

16-21 June 2002

Firstpage

414

Lastpage

415

Abstract

Conductivity measurements are an important tool for quality control of aluminum alloys in aircraft manufacture. Industrial measurements using commercial conductivity meters are performed using eddy currents (60 kHz) whereas many conductivity standards are traceable through measurements at DC. A combined project of NPL, PTB, and NMi has been started aiming a.o. at improving the agreement of conductivity measurements with DC and AC methods. In this paper we describe the first results of a new methodology for DC conductivity measurements in the Van der Pauw geometry.

Keywords

aircraft testing; eddy current testing; electrical conductivity measurement; measurement standards; quality control; 60 kHz; AC/DC conductivity measurement agreement; DC conductivity measurements; Van der Pauw geometry; aircraft manufacture; aluminum alloys; conductivity standards; eddy current conductivity measurements; eddy currents; industrial measurements; quality control; Aircraft manufacture; Aluminum alloys; Conductivity measurement; Current measurement; Eddy currents; Geometry; Manufacturing industries; Measurement standards; Performance evaluation; Quality control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Precision Electromagnetic Measurements, 2002. Conference Digest 2002 Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7242-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CPEM.2002.1034896

Filename

1034896