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The boundary element method (BEM) is an efficient way to compute solutions of eddy current nondestructive evaluation (NDE) problems. However, in boundary element analysis of eddy currents, the computational accuracy and efficiency depend on the element discretization employed and are very sensitive to the liftoff distance and the relative geometry size between the detecting coil and object under evaluation or test. In this paper, the skin depth parameter is applied to study the element discretization effects on boundary element analysis for 3D eddy current NDE problems. The element discretization rules are concluded by conducting numerical experiments for different liftoff distances and relative probe sizes so that they can be adjusted to account for variations in these parameters, and validated against the analytical method, semi-analytical method, and experiments of some benchmark problems. With the help of the rules, the overall computational accuracy is improved while the cost is reduced for the BEM modeling of eddy current NDE problems.
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This work is sponsored in part by the National Nature Science Foundation of China for Youth under Grant 62001245, by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province for Youth under Grant BK20200757, by the NUPTSF under Grant NY220074, by the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves under Grant K202108 and by the IU Program of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation at Iowa State University.
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Bao, Y., Gurrala, P. & Song, J. Element Discretization Effects on Boundary Element Method Modeling for Eddy Current Nondestructive Evaluation Problems. J Nondestruct Eval 40, 79 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-021-00812-7
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