Method for measuring the wall thickness of an electrically conductive object

摘要

Measuring the wall thickness of an electrically conductive object using a probe comprising a transmitter coil, a first receiver and a second receiver, which method comprises arranging the probe near the object; inducing transient eddy currents in the object and recording the signals of the receivers with time; measuring the wall thickness from a characteristic of one of the signals; calculating a characteristic value from a combination of the signals; and correcting the measured wall thickness for the distance between the probe and the object using a pre-determined relationship between the wall thickness and the characteristic value for different values of the distance between the probe and the object.