MAGNETIC NON-DESTRUCTIVE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR...

Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – With means to create magnetic field to test material

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C324S235000, C324S240000

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RE040166

ABSTRACT:
A magnetic non-destructive method and an apparatus for measurement of cross sectional area of elongated ferrous objects such as steel wire ropes and for detecting local flaws is disclosed. A section of a wire rope is magnetized by longitudinally spaced magnetic poles. A magnetic field parameter, e.g. magnetic flux density, is measured in, by at least, one pair of points between the poles of magnetizing device (in an inter-pole area) at the object under test surface. The pair of points is formed by two sensors placed in the inter-pole area along a direct line parallel to the rope axis. The rope cross sectional area corresponds to a sum of the sensor pair signals. Local flaws, such as broken wires and pitting corrosion in the rope, is detected by a first differences of signals of the sensor pair. At least one additional magneto-sensitive sensor is located radially inward of the poles and weight coefficient A depending on a nominal value of the rope cross sectional area is subtracted from the sum of signals of the sensor pair thereby providing a second difference of the signals corresponding to the rope cross sectional area. The coefficient A value is chosen to get the minimum value of the second signal difference while the magnetizing device and all the sensors are placed onto the rope having a nominal value of a cross sectional area. A sensor unit in the inter-pole area includes a magnetic core in form of three longitudinally spaced ferrous elements. Pairs of the sensors are located in the gaps along a direct line parallel to the rope. Two embodiments of the magnetic heads are disclosed: the hollow cylinder-shaped one and the U-shaped one.

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patent: 5804964 (1998-09-01), Hamelin et al.

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