Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – With means to create magnetic field to test material
Patent
1978-12-29
1981-06-02
Strecker, Gerard R.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Magnetic
With means to create magnetic field to test material
G01R 3312
Patent
active
042713935
ABSTRACT:
Nondestructive evaluation of conductive materials is disclosed wherein a magnetic field having a relatively slow rise time and a relatively fast fall time induces eddy currents in the conductive material being tested and subsurface flaws such as internal cracks or other discontinuities are detected by monitoring the magnetic field produced by the eddy currents. The magnetic field is generated by sequentially discharging two capacitor banks through a coil with the currents supplied by the capacitor banks being of opposite polarity and the first capacitive discharge exhibiting a time constant that is substantially longer than the second capacitive discharge. The initial, slowly rising portion of the magnetic field establishes magnetic flux that extends to substantial depths within the conductive material and the fast fall time of the magnetic field causes eddy currents of substantial magnitude to circulate within the region of the conductive material being examined. Flaws within the material cause perturbations in the eddy currents and induce current variations in a pickup coil during a time interval occurring shortly after the magnetic field begins to collapse. Detection equipment, connected for receiving the signal supplied by the pickup coil, monitors the amplitude of the pickup coil signal and, in some situations, its relationship in time relative to the rapid collapse of the magnetic field to determine the presence and location of a flaw.
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Hansen Karl A.
Hendrickson Iver G.
Strecker Gerard R.
The Boeing Company
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