Efficient numerical solver for simulation of pulsed eddy-current testing signals

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4582-4591

  Xie, Shejuan ^a   Chen, Zhenmao ^b   Takagi, Toshiyuki ^a   Uchimoto, Tetsuya ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Frequency domain summation; interpolation; pulsed eddy current testing; simulation; time domain integration

Indexed keywords

EDGE ELEMENTS; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HIGH PRECISION; IN-PIPE; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SOLVERS; SIGNAL PREDICTION; SIGNAL SUMMATION; SIMULATION; SIMULATION METHODS; SIMULATION TIME; TIME-DOMAIN INTEGRATIONS; WALL THINNING;

DEFECTS; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; EDDY CURRENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80155125092     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2151872     Document Type: Article

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