TY - JFULL AU - Mohd Tarmizi Ali and Mohd Khairul Mohd Salleh and Md. Mahfudz Md. Zan PY - 2008/7/ TI - Air-Filled Circular Cross Sectional Cavity for Microwave Non-Destructive Testing T2 - International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering SP - 808 EP - 814 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/4485 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 18, 2008 N2 - Dielectric sheet perturbation to the dominant TE111 mode resonant frequency of a circular cavity is studied and presented in this paper. The dielectric sheet, placed at the middle of the airfilled cavity, introduces discontinuities and disturbs the configuration of electromagnetic fields in the cavity. For fixed dimensions of cavity and fixed thickness of the loading dielectric, the dominant resonant frequency varies quite linearly with the permittivity of the dielectric. This quasi-linear relationship is plotted using Maple software and verified using 3D electromagnetic simulations. Two probes are used in the simulation for wave excitation into and from the cavity. The best length of probe is found to be 3 mm, giving the closest resonant frequency to the one calculated using Maple. A total of fourteen different dielectrics of permittivity ranging from 1 to 12.9 are tested one by one in the simulation. The works show very close agreement between the results from Maple and the simulation. A constant difference of 0.04 GHz is found between the resonant frequencies collected during simulation and the ones from Maple. The success of this project may lead to the possibility of using the middle loaded cavity at TE111 mode as a microwave non-destructive testing of solid materials. ER -