An automated self-calibrated instrument for nondestructive testing on conductive materials

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 955-962

  Bernieri, Andrea ^a   Betta, Giovanni ^a   Ferrigno, Luigi ^a   Laracca, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TESTING; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PROBES; SENSORS; TRANSDUCERS;

AUTOMATED SELF CALIBRATION INSTRUMENT; FLUXSET MAGNETIC SENSORS; MAGNETIC TRANSDUCER; MULTISENSOR PROBE;

EDDY CURRENT TESTING;

EID: 4043156245     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2004.830588     Document Type: Article

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