Pulsed eddy current technique for defect detection in aircraft riveted structures

NDT and E International

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 176-181

  He, Yunze ^a   Luo, Feilu ^a   Pan, Mengchun ^a   Weng, Feibing ^a   Hu, Xiangchao ^a   Gao, Junzhe ^a   Liu, Bo ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Defect detection; Differential probe; Nondestructive testing; Pulsed eddy current; Riveted structure

Indexed keywords

AGING AIRCRAFT; AVERAGING METHOD; COIL PROBES; DE-NOISE; DEFECT DETECTION; DIFFERENTIAL PROBES; HALL PROBE; HALL RESPONSE; KEY FEATURE; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; PEAK AMPLITUDE; PULSED EDDY CURRENT; RESPONSE SIGNAL; TIME DOMAIN; TWO STAGE; WAVELET ANALYSIS METHOD; ZERO-CROSSING TIME;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; DEFECT STRUCTURES; EDDY CURRENTS; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; ELECTRIC COILS; PROBES; SIGNAL DETECTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EDDY CURRENT TESTING;

EID: 73449139049     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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