Principal component analysis of pulsed eddy current response from corrosion in mild steel

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2548-2553

  Alamin, Mohammed ^a   Tian, Gui Yun ^a   Andrews, Adrian ^b   Jackson, Paul ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b International Paint Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corrosion under coating; electrical conductivity; magnetic permeability; normalization; principal component analysis (PCA); pulsed eddy current

Indexed keywords

COATING THICKNESS; COMPLEX NATURE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FIRST PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; MILD STEEL PLATE; NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION METHODS; NORMALIZATION; PULSED EDDY CURRENT; SURFACE PREPARATION; TIME DOMAIN; WAVE FORMS;

CARBON STEEL; EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CORROSION;

EID: 84862287192     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2012.2195308     Document Type: Article

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