Enhanced corrosion detection in airframe structures using pulsed eddy current and advanced processing

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 403-410

  Plotnikov, Y A ^a   Bantz, W J ^b   Hansen, J P ^c  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GE AVIATION   (United States)

^c GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Digital signal processing; Discrete Fourier transform; Eddy current; Image processing; Pulsed eddy current; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

AIRFRAME STRUCTURES; CORROSION DETECTION; DRIVE PULSE; EDDY CURRENT TECHNIQUES; EDDY-CURRENT; HIDDEN CORROSION; IMAGES PROCESSING; MATERIAL PENETRATION; PULSED EDDY CURRENT; SIGNAL-PROCESSING;

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 38749146544     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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