Advances in the Theory and Practice of Squid NDE
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
This site provides free, public access to papers presented at the annual QNDE conference between 1983 and 1999, and abstracts for papers presented at the conference since 2001.
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The superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) holds great promise for electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation (NDE) because it offers high sensitivity -permitting high lift-offs or very small excitation signals — and maintains this sensitivity from DC to high frequencies [1]. In eddy current NDE, this allows an induction coil to comprise only a few turns, or even a single filament, without a high permeability core, and makes forward modeling and inverse processing easier, since the induction source is well defined and the SQUID itself closely approximates an ideal sensor. However, the SQUID also has practical drawbacks, including the need for cryogenic temperatures and for differential configurations for measurements in environmental fields. Until very recently, almost all SQUID NDE systems were based on low temperature superconductors (LTSs), but the first measurements with high temperature superconductor (HTS) SQUIDs are now being reported [2–4].