TY - JOUR AB - In the ideal crack model (negligible thickness and an impenetrable barrier to electric current) in eddy‐current testing frame, the field‐flaw is equivalent to a current dipole layer on its surface. This dipole density is the solution of an integral equation with a hyperstrong kernel. This model has shown its efficiency, as well the computing accuracy, as for the CPU time. Furthermore, the case of a current leakage across crack was considered by introducing an equivalent conductivity of the crack. This paper aims at simulating a local varying conductivity. In particular, we focus on a constant piecewise conductivity. In this last case, because of the presence of the hypersingular kernel in the equation, the numerical scheme using the ideal case has to be modified. VL - 23 IS - 4 SN - 0332-1649 DO - 10.1108/03321640410553328 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/03321640410553328 AU - Beltrame Ph. PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - Modelisation of thin cracks with varying conductivity in eddy‐current testing T2 - COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 894 EP - 903 Y2 - 2024/04/26 ER -