Improved immunity to lift-off effect in pulsed eddy current testing with two-stage differential probes

Russian Journal of Nondestructive Testing

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-144

  Shu, L ^a   Songling, H ^a   Wei, Z ^a   Peng, Y ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; LIFT-OFF EFFECT; PULSE EDDY CURRENT (PEC);

EDDY CURRENT TESTING;

EID: 44349123132     PISSN: 10618309     EISSN: 16083385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1061830908020095     Document Type: Article

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