Pulsed eddy-current based giant magnetoresistive system for the inspection of aircraft structures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 2, 2010, Pages 910-917

  Yang, Guang ^a,b   Tamburrino, Antonello ^a,c   Udpa, Lalita ^a   Udpa, Satish S ^a   Zeng, Zhiwei ^a,d   Deng, Yiming ^a   Que, Peiwen ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Giant magnetoresistive sensors; Nondestructive evaluation; Pulsed eddy current

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT STRUCTURE; ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COIL PROBES; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; FIELD SENSORS; GIANT MAGNETORESISTIVE; GIANT MAGNETORESISTIVE SENSORS; MEASURED SIGNALS; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; NON DESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION; PULSE EXCITATION; PULSED EDDY CURRENT; SMALL CRACK; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS; TRANSIENT FIELDS;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; AIRFRAMES; CRACK DETECTION; CRACKS; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; EDDY CURRENTS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; POWER QUALITY; SENSORS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 78249285380     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2032330     Document Type: Article

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