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Design of a Shielded Reflection Type Pulsed Eddy Current Probe for the Evaluation of Thickness  

Shin, Young-Kil (School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Kunsan National University)
Choi, Dong-Myung (School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Kunsan National University)
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Abstract
For better evaluation of material thickness by using the reflection type pulsed eddy current method, various probe models are designed and their response signals, characteristics, and sensitivities to thickness variation are investigated by a numerical analysis method. Since the sensor needs to detect magnetic fields from eddy currents induced in a test material, not from the exciter coil, two types of models that are shielded by the combination of copper and ferrite and only by ferrite are considered. By studying response signals from these shielded probe models, the peak value and the zero crossing time are selected as useful signal features for the evaluation of material thickness. Investigation of sensitivities of these two features shows that the sensitivity of peak value is more useful than that of zero crossing time and that the probe shielded only by ferrite gives much better sensitivity to thickness variation.
Keywords
Pulsed Eddy Current; Reflection Type; Shield; Exciter/Sensor Coil; Thickness Evaluation; Numerical Analysis Method;
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