Sizing of 3-D arbitrary defects using magnetic flux leakage measurements

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1024-1033

  Ravan, Maryam ^a   Amineh, Reza Khalaj ^a   Koziel, Slawomir ^b   Nikolova, Natalia K ^a   Reilly, James P ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Arbitrary defect; Edge detection; Magnetic flux leakage (MFL); Sizing; Space mapping optimization

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DEFECT; ARBITRARY SHAPE; CANNY EDGE DETECTION; DEFECT DEPTH; DEPTH PROFILE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INVERSION PROCEDURE; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC FLUX LEAKAGE; METAL LOSS DEFECT; SIZING; SPACE MAPPINGS;

EDGE DETECTION; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MAGNETIC STRUCTURE; MAPPING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MAGNETIC LEAKAGE;

EID: 77949777693     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2037008     Document Type: Article

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