Study and comparison of different EMAT configurations for SH wave inspection

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2571-2581

  Ribichini, Remo ^a   Cegla, Frederic ^a   Nagy, Peter B ^a,b   Cawley, Peter ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ELEMENTARY TRANSDUCERS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; GUIDED WAVE INSPECTION; KEY DESIGN PARAMETERS; LARGE STRUCTURES; LARGE-SIGNALS; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE MATERIAL; MILD STEEL PLATE; NON-CONTACT; PERIODIC PERMANENT MAGNETS; POOR PERFORMANCE; SH WAVE; SHEAR HORIZONTAL WAVES; TEST OBJECT; TORSIONAL MODES; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LORENTZ FORCE; MAGNETOSTRICTION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES;

MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES;

STEEL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOUND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOUND; STEEL;

EID: 84857019733     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.2120     Document Type: Article

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