Abstract
A shear-vertical-wave point-focusing electromagnetic acoustic transducer is developed for the purpose of detecting stress corrosion cracking in stainless steel. The transducer is composed of a permanent magnet and two identical concentric meander-line coils, one for the transmitter and the other for the receiver, and the shear-vertical waves are excited and detected by the Lorentz force mechanism. The meander-line coils are designed so that the phases of all the excited shear-vertical waves are focused in phase at a focal point. The focal area is evaluated experimentally, and it is confirmed that the developed transducer is capable of detecting slit defects deeper than 0.05 mm at the bottom surface of a stainless-steel plate 20 mm thick.
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