Title :
Electromagnetic field analysis in remote field eddy current testing systems
Author :
Burais, N. ; Nicolas, A.
Author_Institution :
LEL, CNRS, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Ecully, France
fDate :
7/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A model and a general nondestructive testing (NDT) and nondestructive evaluation (NDE) package are presented for developing and optimizing electromagnetic sensors. The package has been applied to sensors for remote field control and provides much information for optimizing, for example, the distance between excitation and measurement coils. Some precautions must be taken to obtain high-quality results. The mesh must be the same in order to compare materials with and without a crack. Also, in the NDT technique the measurement coil is far from the excitation coil, so that the study domain, including air, is very large. The quality of the results can be increased by coupling the finite-element method on this domain to the boundary integral equation for the exterior domain
Keywords :
eddy current testing; electric sensing devices; electromagnetic devices; electromagnetic field theory; EM field analysis; boundary integral equation; electromagnetic sensors; excitation; finite-element method; measurement coils; model; nondestructive evaluation; nondestructive testing; remote field control; remote field eddy current testing systems; Coils; Eddy current testing; Electromagnetic analysis; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic measurements; Electromagnetic modeling; Finite element methods; Integral equations; Nondestructive testing; Packaging;
Journal_Title :
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on