Impedance of a curved circular spiral coil around a conductive cylinder

Abstract Expressions are presented for the inductance of a curved circular spiral coil in free space and the change in impedance when the coil is wrapped around the surface of a magnetic, conductive cylinder. Inductance and impedance measurements of a thin conformable coil on a cylindrical Al-alloy rod were used to test the validity of these expressions. The theoretical predictions are in very good agreement with the experimental measurements over the frequency range 1 kHz–10 MHz. The findings are compared with previous work using rectangular spiral coils and it was found that the change in normalized impedance at high frequencies for a circular coil was almost identical to that obtained for a similarly-sized square coil. The implications for use in eddy-current nondestructive testing are discussed.

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