In a surface-mounted sintered NdFeB permanent-magnet generator, the magnets are usually thin (typically 4 mm), and hence the armature reaction, due to the time harmonics in the stator currents, is high. NdFeB magnets are conducting (resistivity typically 1.6 μΩm) and experience eddy-current losses. Therefore, the combined eddy-current losses in the NdFeB magnets and a solid iron rotor may becom...

This thesis presents a novel procedure for representing and processing multifrequency eddy current signals. Multifrequency eddy current NDE methods are used extensively for the inspection of steam generator tubes in nuclear power plants. Existing methods utilize computationally expensive time domain procedures to process the data. The procedure outlined in the thesis uses frequency domain metho...