Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-8ctnn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T16:43:54.516Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Calculation of the ECT signal of a minute crack by a FEM-BIM hybrid method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2004

Y. Le Bihan ,
J. Pavo  and
C. Marchand
Y. Le Bihan*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Génie Électrique de Paris, UMR 8507 CNRS, SUPELEC, Universités de Paris XI et Paris VI, Plateau de Moulon, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
J. Pavo
Affiliation:
Department of Broadband Infocommunications and Electromagnetic Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1521 Budapest, Egry J. u. 18., Hungary
C. Marchand
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Génie Électrique de Paris, UMR 8507 CNRS, SUPELEC, Universités de Paris XI et Paris VI, Plateau de Moulon, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
*
[email protected][email protected][email protected]
Get access

Abstract

A hybrid method is presented for the calculation of the interaction of a complicated shape ferrite-core eddy current testing probe with extremely small size cracks in a plate. The method is obtained by blending the boundary integral (BIM) and finite element (FEM) methods preserving their attractive properties, that is, the fast and accurate evaluation of the defect field and the versatility in specimen and probe geometry, respectively. FEM is applied for the computation of the electric field induced in the specimen without cracks. Using the obtained, so-called, incident field the BIM is used for the calculation of the field perturbation due to the presence of the cracks in the tested specimen. With the application of the presented hybrid calculations, a very fast and accurate method is developed for the solution of a problem that would pose considerable difficulties for either the FEM or the BIM if they were applied purely alone in the conventional way. The results of the calculations are compared with a large number of experimental data. The very good correlation between the measured and simulated probe responses proves the applicability of the presented method.

Keywords

Type
Research Article
Information
The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , December 2004 , pp. 355 - 360
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2004

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

N. Ida, Numerical Modeling for Electromagnetic Non-Destructive Evaluation (Chapman & Hall, London, 1995)
Bowler, J.R., J. Appl. Phys. 75, 8128 (1994) CrossRef
Badics, Z., Matsumoto, Y., Aoki, K., Nakayasu, F., Uesaka, M., Miya, K., IEEE Trans. Magn. 33, 1012 (1997) CrossRef
Pavo, J., Miya, K., IEEE Trans. Magn. 30, 3407 (1994) CrossRef
Mayos, M., Mastorchio, S., Aubry, L., Study in Appl. Electromagn. and Mech. 15, 208 (1999)
Badics, Z., Komatsu, H., Matsumoto, Y., Aoki, K., Nakayasu, F., Miya, K., IEEE Trans. Magn. 30, 3080 (1994) CrossRef
Pavo, J., Biro, O., Hollaus, K., COMPEL 20, 404 (2001) CrossRef
Y. Le Bihan, O. Lespinet, A. Mourenko, F. Panizzoli, D. Placko, E. Santander, French patent 0008368, 2000
Ren, Z., Razek, A., Int. J. Num. Mod.: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields 9, 81 (1996)