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A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 April 2021) | Viewed by 20777

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Dr. Kam Chana

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University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Interests: eddy current sensors; tip timing; tip clearance; postion measurement; LVDT; displacement measurement; high temperature eddy current sensors; oil debris monitoring

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Dear Colleagues,

Eddy current sensors are most commonly used for various noncontact proximity, displacement, and particulate measurements, sensing the formation of secondary fields to discover the distance between the probe and target material or particle counting. High resolution and tolerance of dirty environments make eddy current sensors indispensable in today’s modern industrial operations. Eddy current sensors can also be used for high tempearture applications.

In this Special Issue, a wide range of topics are covered, including the design and fabrication of eddy current sensors for a variety of applications in industry. The measurement fields include:

Dynamic systems;
Position measurement/sensing;
Noncontact blade tip timing;
Noncontact blade tip clearance;
Structural health monitoring;
Condition monitoring, such as oil;
Prognostics;
Multiparameter sensor

Dr. Kam Chana
Guest Editor

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Eddy current sensor, eddy current testing
Noncontact measurement
Condition monitoring

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Conductivity Classification of Non-Magnetic Tilting Metals by Eddy Current Sensors

by Yue Du, Zhijie Zhang, Wuliang Yin, Shuang Zhu, Ziqi Chen and Hanyang Xu

Sensors 2020, 20(9), 2608; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20092608 - 03 May 2020

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Metallic waste classification benefits the environment, resource reuse and industrial economy. This paper provides a fast, non-contact and convenient method based on eddy current to classify metals. The characteristic phase to characterize different conductivity is introduced and extracted from mutual inductance in the form of amplitude and phase. This characteristic phase could offer great separation for non-tilting metals. Although it is hard to classify tilting metals by only using the characteristic phase, we propose the technique of phase compensation utilizing photoelectric sensors to obtain the rectified phase corresponding to the non-tilting situation. Finally, we construct a classification algorithm involving phase compensation. By conducting a test, a

95 %

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Rotating Focused Field Eddy-Current Sensing for Arbitrary Orientation Defects Detection in Carbon Steel

by Zhiyuan Xu, Xiang Wang and Yiming Deng

Sensors 2020, 20(8), 2345; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20082345 - 20 Apr 2020

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This paper presents a rotating focused field eddy-current (EC) sensing technique, which leverages the advantages of magnetic field focusing and rotating magnetic field, for arbitrary orientation defects detection. The sensor consists of four identical excitation coils orthogonally arranged in an upside-down pyramid configuration and a giant magneto-resistive (GMR) detection element. The four coils are connected to form two figure-8-shaped focusing sub-probes, which are fed by two identical harmonic currents with 90 degrees phase difference. A finite element model-based study of arbitrary orientation defects detection was performed to understand the probe operational characteristics and optimize its design parameters. Probe prototyping and experimental validation were also carried out on a carbon steel plate specimen with four prefabricated surface-breaking defects. In-situ spot inspection with the probe rotating above the defect and a manual line-scan inspection were both conducted. Results showed that the probe has the capability of detecting defects with any orientations while maintaining the same sensitivity and the defect depth can be quantitatively evaluated by using the signal amplitude. Compared with the existing rotating field probes, the presented probe does not require additional excitation adjustment or data fusion. Meanwhile, due to its focusing effect, it can generate a strong rotating magnetic field at the defect location with a weak background noise, thus yielding superior signal-to-noise ratio. Full article

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Optimum Design and Application Research of Eddy Current Sensor for Measurement of TBM Disc Cutter Wear

by Fei Wang, Changhao Men, Xiangwei Kong and Lingxiang Meng

Sensors 2019, 19(19), 4230; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19194230 - 29 Sep 2019

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In view of the fact that the mature eddy current sensors on the market have a small measuring range and a certain requirement for the measured conductor area, which cannot meet the requirement of TBM disc cutter Wear monitoring, Ansoft Maxwell simulation was used to optimize the coil geometry parameters and circuit structure of eddy current sensor in this study. A special sensor for measuring disc cutter wear was designed, and the feasibility of the design was verified by measuring a 17-inch disc cutter. The results indicate that the linear range of the eddy current sensor is 35 mm under the condition that the measured blade width is 19 mm, which can meet the requirement of disc cutter wear measurement and provide monitoring data for real-time disc cutter wear monitoring system. Full article

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Experimental Investigation of Inductive Sensor Characteristic for Blade Tip Clearance Measurement at High Temperature

by Zhenxia Liu, Ziyu Zhao, Yaguo Lyu and Lingqiang Zhao

Sensors 2019, 19(17), 3694; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19173694 - 25 Aug 2019

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Turbine tip clearance of aero-engine is important to engine performance. Proper tip clearance can reduce the gas leakage over turbine blade tips and improve the engine efficiency of turbo machinery and reduce the fuel consumption. Therefore, accurate tip clearance measurement is essential. The inductive measurement method is one of the non-contact distance measurement methods, which has the characteristics of high sensitivity, fast response speed, and strong anti-interference ability. Based on the principle of inductive sensor measuring tip clearance, the ambient temperature change may cause the material electromagnetic performance change for the conductivity and permeability varies with temperature. In order to verify the temperature effect on the sensor performance, the repeated calibration experiments were carried out to obtain the sensor repeatability error of 5.4%. Then, the sensor was calibrated in the range of 0 mm–4 mm clearance at temperature from 600 °C to 1000 °C and obtained the measurement error of 4.6%. Results indicate when the temperature ranged from 600 °C to 1000 °C, clearance measurement error is smaller than the sensor repeatability error so the temperature effect on the sensor characteristics can be ignored. This conclusion makes the sensor promising for monitoring the blade tip clearances at various temperature environment. Full article

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Single-Coil Eddy Current Sensors and Their Application for Monitoring the Dangerous States of Gas-Turbine Engines

by Sergey Borovik and Yuriy Sekisov

Sensors 2020, 20(7), 2107; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20072107 - 08 Apr 2020

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The creation and exploitation of gas turbine engines (GTE) often involve two mutually exclusive tasks related to ensuring the highest reliability while achieving a good economic and environmental performance of the power plant. The value of the radial clearance between the blade tips of the compressor or turbine and the stator is a parameter that has a significant impact on the efficiency and safety of the GTE. However, the radial displacements that form tip clearances are only one of the components of the displacements made by GTE elements due to the action of power loads and thermal deformations during engines’ operation. The impact of loads in conjunction with natural aging is also the reason for the wear of the GTE’s structural elements (for example, bearing assemblies) and the loss of their mechanical strength. The article provides an overview of the methods and tools for monitoring the dangerous states of the GTE (blade tips clearances, impellers and shafts displacements, debris detecting in lubrication system) based on the single-coil eddy current sensor, which remains operational at the temperatures above 1200 °C. The examples of practical application of the systems with such sensors in bench tests of the GTE are given. Full article

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