Characterization of surface-breaking cracks using one tangential component of magnetic leakage field measurements

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 516-524

  Amineh, Reza Khalaj ^a   Nikolova, Natalia K ^a   Reilly, James P ^a   Hare, James R ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Intratech Inline Inspection Services Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crack sizing; Magnetic flux leakage technique; Nondestructive testing; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

SURFACE BREAKING CRACKS; TANGENTIAL COMPONENT;

MAGNETIC LEAKAGE;

EID: 41549121151     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.915592     Document Type: Article

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