Modeling Some Calibrated Cracks for E-NDE by a Difference Method

Electromagnetic Non Destructive Evaluation (E-NDE) is often conducted by inducing eddy currents in the structure to be examined, if this is conducting. Existence of flaws is detected by difference between the response of defect-free structures and damaged ones. In the present paper, we model such processes in order to predict the feasibility of this evaluation and to facilitate the interpretation of the observation.An original method is to represent a crack by a current source producing a magnetic signal. We have applied it to the case of a defect with a standard shape. The experimental evidences for the validity of this method are given.

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