Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. (2013) 64: 24510
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2013120440

Efficient FEM modeling of printed coils for eddy current testing^*

¹ Laboratoire de Génie Electrique de Paris - UMR 8507 CNRS - Supelec - Univ. Paris-Sud and UPMC Plateau de Moulon, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
² CEA, LIST, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

^a e-mail: houda.zaidi@lgep.supelec.fr

Received: 2 October 2012
Revised: 16 January 2013
Accepted: 2 April 2013
Published online: 8 November 2013

Abstract

In this paper an approach for the modeling of the eddy current testing of a conductive part with flat printed coils is proposed. The overlapping finite element method is implemented for this purpose. It is shown that this approach allows simplifying the modeling of eddy current testing configurations that use this kind of coil.