Numerical study and optimal design of the butterfly coil EMAT for signal amplitude enhancement

J Zhang, M Liu, X Jia, R Gao - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The low energy conversion efficiency of electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) is a
critical issue in nondestructive testing applications. To overcome this shortcoming, a butterfly …

Enhancement of EMAT's efficiency by using silicon steel laminations back-plate

W Ren, J He, S Dixon, K Xu - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2018 - Elsevier
Silicon steel laminations are introduced as the back-plate to an electromagnetic acoustic
transducer (EMAT) to increase the efficiency of the EMAT by increasing the magnitude of the …

Debonding imaging of the aluminium/rigid polyurethane foam composite plates using A0 mode Lamb waves

X Yang, S Zhang, J Xu - Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Debonding regions can occur at the interface of aluminium/rigid polyurethane foam
composite plates (ARCP) during manufacturing. To help improve the technological process …

Lift-off performance of electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) for surface acoustic wave generation

L Xiang, S Dixon, CB Thring, Z Li, RS Edwards - NDT & E International, 2022 - Elsevier
Electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) have a behaviour that depends on the
distance between the transducer and the surface of the material under test, namely the lift …

A flexible and noncontact guided-wave transducer based on coils-only EMAT for pipe inspection

T Liu, C Pei, R Cai, Y Li, Z Chen - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2020 - Elsevier
Ultrasonic guided wave testing technique, with its advantages of long propagation distance,
low attenuation and high testing efficiency, has been widely used in nondestructive testing …

Improvement of unidirectional focusing periodic permanent magnet shear-horizontal wave electromagnetic acoustic transducer by oblique bias magnetic field

H Sun, S Huang, Q Wang, S Wang, W Zhao - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose a new unidirectional point focusing shear horizontal (SH) guided wave
electromagnetic ultrasonic transducer (EMAT) with an angled periodic permanent magnet …

Debonding Detection in Aluminum/Rigid Polyurethane Foam Composite Plates Using A0 Mode LAMB Wave EMATs

X Yang, J Xu, S Zhang, J Tu - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Aluminum/rigid polyurethane foam composite plates (ARCPs) are widely used for thermal
insulation. The interface debonding generated during manufacturing degrades the thermal …

Evaluation of DC-subway stray current corrosion with integrated multi-physical modeling and electrochemical analysis

Z Cai, X Zhang, H Cheng - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Leakage of stray current can cause serious problems by accelerating the corrosion process
of a buried pipeline in the subway. A multi-physical finite element model of the DC-subway …

Development of wideband pulse compression surface wave EMAT

Z Liu, Y Guo, X Zhao, J Cheng, K Zheng… - IEEE Sensors …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasonic surface wave electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) have been widely
utilized in detecting surface defects of metal materials due to their noncontact advantages …

Obliquely incident EMAT for high-order Lamb wave mode generation based on inclined static magnetic field

Z Liu, X Zhao, J Li, C He, B Wu - Ndt & E International, 2019 - Elsevier
Lamb waves have the characteristics of long propagation distance, and they can be used to
realize rapid and wide-scale nondestructive testing of plates. The detection sensitivity can …