Design of a pulsed eddy current sensor for detection of defects in aircraft lap-joints

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 101, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 92-98

  Sophian, Ali ^a   Tian, Gui Yun ^a   Taylor, David ^a   Rudlin, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b TWI LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aircraft NDT; Digital compensation; Feature extraction; Magnetic sensor; Pulsed eddy current (PEC) sensor; Transient response

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFECTS; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AIRCRAFT LAP-JOINT; PULSED EDDY CURRENT SENSOR;

SENSORS;

EID: 0037201869     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-4247(02)00195-4     Document Type: Article

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