Calculation of Magnetic Hysteresis Minor Loop and New Features Extraction based on Magnetic Barkhausen Noise

Magnetic Barkhausen Noise (MBN) is an effective non-destructive testing approach for ferromagnetic material residual stress measurement and evaluation. However, the common MBN signal features such as the time to peak value and frequency spectrum are not accurate enough for stress evaluation due to the randomness of MBN signal. This paper proposed a new method to calculate a curve which looks like magnetic hysteresis loop (B-H curve) based on the line integral from envelope curve of MBN signal. And some new features are extracted from the above integrated B-H curve. These new signal features show a good linear relationship with applied stress. By comparing these new features with previous common features, we find that the envelope area and center height difference of new features can effectively reduce the adverse impact on stress evaluation due to the randomness of MBN signal.