Mechanical Damage Detection With Magnetic Flux Leakage Tools: Modeling the Effect of Localized Residual Stresses

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 43-49

  Babbar, Vijay ^a,b   Shiari, Behrouz ^c,d   Clapham, Lynann ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUILAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Magnetic flux leakage; Nondestructive evaluation; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COERCIVE FORCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAGNETIZATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PLASTICITY; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STEEL PIPE;

MAGNETIC FLUX LEAKAGE (MFL); NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION;

MAGNETIC FLUX;

EID: 1342286852     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.821121     Document Type: Article

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