Evaluation of electrical conductivity of metals via monotonicity of time constants(

This manuscript addresses the “classical” problem of estimating electrical conductivity of metals. The novel contribution of this work is the use of a new set of features, namely time constants of the source-free response in a pulsed eddy current testing (PECT) experiment. Time constants characterize the sourcefree response and increase monotonically with the electrical conductivity of the specimen. Time constants form a particularly important set of features because they do not depend upon the probing system and, hence, they are not sensitive to probe lift-off and tilting which are responsible for significant experimental errors.