Advances of Barkhausen Emission Measurement

Barkhausen emission (BE) is a well-known phenomenon used in nondestructive testing techniques of ferromagnetic materials. The weaknesses of methods based on BE are related to the difficulties of ensuring measurement reproducibility because of the influence of the specimen on the measurement channel. In this paper, we propose a method of sensor calibration prior to measurement. To implement the calibration, a BE sensor is equipped with an additional calibration coil. The electrical pulse induced in the calibration coil is then used to reconstruct measured magnetic field pulses at the specimen surface.