Pulsed eddy-current response to a conducting half-space

Eddy-current nondestructive evaluation commonly carried out using single frequency time harmonic excitations, but a pulsed excitation offers a simple and effective alternative. The pulse signals have been calculated for a probe coil whose current rises and falls exponentially, approximating a square wave when the exponential time constant is small. Predictions of the induced electromotive force (EMF) across a coil above a half-space conductor and of the magnetic field on the coil axis have been compared with experiments. The comparison shows excellent agreement between theory and experiment.