A GMR-based eddy current system for NDE of aircraft structures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3312-3314

  Nair, Naveen V ^a   Melapudi, Vikram R ^a   Jimenez, Hector R ^a   Liu, Xin ^a   Deng, Yiming ^a   Zeng, Zhiwei ^a   Udpa, Lalita ^a   Udpa, Satish S ^a   Moran, Thomas J ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddy current; giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensors; nondestructive evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008018869     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.879820     Document Type: Article

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