An Integral Computational Model for Crack Simulation and Detection via Eddy Currents

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 736-755

  Albanese, Raffaele ^a   Rubinacci, Guglielmo ^b   Villone, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics; Eddy currents; Edge elements; Finite elements; Non destructive evaluation

Indexed keywords

CRACK DETECTION; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CRACK SHAPE; DIRECT PROBLEMS; EDDY-CURRENT; EDGE ELEMENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROBLEMS; FINITE ELEMENT; INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; SCATTERED FIELD;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS;

EID: 0000102484     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6261     Document Type: Article

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