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Ma L, Spagnul S, Soleimani M. Metal Solidification Imaging Process by Magnetic Induction Tomography. Sci Rep. 2017;7(1):14502doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-15131-z.
Ma, L., Spagnul, S., & Soleimani, M. (2017). Metal Solidification Imaging Process by Magnetic Induction Tomography. Scientific reports, 7(1), 14502. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15131-z
Ma, Lu, et al. "Metal Solidification Imaging Process by Magnetic Induction Tomography." Scientific reports vol. 7,1 (2017): 14502. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15131-z
Ma L, Spagnul S, Soleimani M. Metal Solidification Imaging Process by Magnetic Induction Tomography. Sci Rep. 2017 Nov 06;7(1):14502. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-15131-z. PMID: 29109419; PMCID: PMC5673972.
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Sci Rep. 2017 Nov 06;7(1):14502. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-15131-z.

Metal Solidification Imaging Process by Magnetic Induction Tomography.

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Lu Ma, Stefano Spagnul, Manuchehr Soleimani

Affiliations

  1. University of Bath, Engineering Tomography Laboratory, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. [email protected].
  2. Ergolines lab s.r.l., Area Science Park, Bldg. R3 Padriciano, Trieste, 34149, Italy. [email protected].
  3. University of Bath, Engineering Tomography Laboratory, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. [email protected].

PMID: 29109419 PMCID: PMC5673972 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-15131-z

Abstract

There are growing number of important applications that require a contactless method for monitoring an object surrounded inside a metallic enclosure. Imaging metal solidification is a great example for which there is no real time monitoring technique at present. This paper introduces a technique - magnetic induction tomography - for the real time in-situ imaging of the metal solidification process. Rigorous experimental verifications are presented. Firstly, a single inductive coil is placed on the top of a melting wood alloy to examine the changes of its inductance during solidification process. Secondly, an array of magnetic induction coils are designed to investigate the feasibility of a tomographic approach, i.e., when one coil is driven by an alternating current as a transmitter and a vector of phase changes are measured from the remaining of the coils as receivers. Phase changes are observed when the wood alloy state changes from liquid to solid. Thirdly, a series of static cold phantoms are created to represent various liquid/solid interfaces to verify the system performance. Finally, a powerful temporal reconstruction method is applied to realise real time in-situ visualisation of the solidification and the measurement of solidified shell thickness, a first report of its kind.

References

  1. Sci Rep. 2015 Jan 22;5:7944 - PubMed

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