Modeling of thin conductive and magnetic layers in eddy current testing by overlapping finite elements

In this paper a new field of application of the overlapping finite element method is proposed for eddy current testing. This method, which has already been used to deal with the lift-off, is extended to the treatment of thin conducting and/or magnetic layers.

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