Quan Zhang, Jiayi Li, Yanfei Liao, Z. Zeng, Junming Lin, Yonghong Dai
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Abstract
ABSTRACT A metal clad plate consists of a base layer and a clad layer of different materials. When testing clad plate using the eddy current (EC) method, the variation of EC density along the thickness direction in clad plate is complicated owing to the interface between the layers. This article attempts to investigate the characteristics of the variation of EC density in the thickness direction in clad plate based on finite element analysis. The results are then used for revealing the mechanism of the relation between coil voltage and the thickness of the clad layer which is essential for the measurement of cladding thickness. Thereupon, the experiment of measuring cladding thickness is performed, in which the testing frequency is selected based on the voltage-thickness relation. It turns out that the measurement is accurate and the results have good linearity.
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Research in Nondestructive Evaluation® is the archival research journal of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc. RNDE® contains the results of original research in all areas of nondestructive evaluation (NDE). The journal covers experimental and theoretical investigations dealing with the scientific and engineering bases of NDE, its measurement and methodology, and a wide range of applications to materials and structures that relate to the entire life cycle, from manufacture to use and retirement.
Illustrative topics include advances in the underlying science of acoustic, thermal, electrical, magnetic, optical and ionizing radiation techniques and their applications to NDE problems. These problems include the nondestructive characterization of a wide variety of material properties and their degradation in service, nonintrusive sensors for monitoring manufacturing and materials processes, new techniques and combinations of techniques for detecting and characterizing hidden discontinuities and distributed damage in materials, standardization concepts and quantitative approaches for advanced NDE techniques, and long-term continuous monitoring of structures and assemblies. Of particular interest is research which elucidates how to evaluate the effects of imperfect material condition, as quantified by nondestructive measurement, on the functional performance.