Remote field eddy current for examination of ferromagnetic tubes

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 652-657

  Mackintosh, David D ^a   Atherton, David L ^b   Schmidt, Thomas R ^b   Russell, David E ^a  

^a Russell Technologies Inc   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC TUBES; REMOTE-FIELD EDDY CURRENTS;

CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEFECTS; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PITTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FERROMAGNETIC TUBES; INTERPREPATION SOFTWARE; METAL LOSS; PERMEABILITY ANOMALIES; PHASOR ANALYSIS; REMOTE FIELD EDDY CURRENT; VOLTAGE PLANE ANOMALY SIGNATURE;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 0030169766     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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