Pulsed eddy current testing with variable duty cycle on rivet joints

NDT and E International

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 599-605

  Abidin, Ilham Zainal ^a   Mandache, Catalin ^b   Tian, Gui Yun ^a   Morozov, Maxim ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Pulse width; Pulsed eddy current

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX DEFECTS; DEFECT DEPTH; DUTY CYCLES; EXCITATION SIGNALS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FEATURE PATTERN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE PULSE; NO REFERENCES; PULSE WIDTH; PULSED EDDY CURRENT; PULSED EDDY CURRENT TESTING; RIVET HEAD; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS; SUBSURFACE LAYER; WORK STUDY;

EDDY CURRENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RIVETS;

EDDY CURRENT TESTING;

EID: 67650077225     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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