Multiple sensors on pulsed eddy-current detection for 3-D subsurface crack assessment

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 90-96

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b TWI LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Feature fusion; Multiple sensors; Normalization; Principal component analysis (PCA); Pulsed eddy current sensors

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HALL EFFECT DEVICES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FEATURE FUSION; MAGNETIC PULSES; MULTIPLE SENSORS; NORMALIZATION; PULSED EDDY-CURRENT SENSORS;

EDDY CURRENT TESTING;

EID: 13144255743     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2004.839129     Document Type: Article

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