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Based on the established finite element 2-D model of EMATs, the amplitude of the displacement components at the observation point of a plate is the optimization objective to be maximized with five parameters pertaining to the magnets, meander-line coils, and excitation signal as design variables. Results show that the signal amplitude of EMATs is 3.48 times on in-plane and 3.49 times on out-of-plane, respectively, compared with the original model. Furthermore, a new material (amorphous nanocrystalline material of type 1K107) is applied to optimize the magnetic circuit of EMATs and enhance the eddy current in an aluminum plate to increase the signal amplitude. Finally, the signal amplitudes obtained from the three types of models, that is, the original one, the optimization one after an orthogonal test, and the optimization one with the addition of magnetic concentrators, are analyzed and compared, indicating that the signal amplitude, compared with the original one, is 6.02 times on in-plane and 6.20 times on out-of-plane, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22020524","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,11]],"date-time":"2022-01-11T20:33:04Z","timestamp":1641933184000},"page":"524","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Optimization Design of Surface Wave Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers Based on Simulation Analysis and Orthogonal Test Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Ju","family":"Lan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical and Equipment Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jingjun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical and Equipment Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4653-5030","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaojuan","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical and Equipment Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ruizhen","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical and Equipment Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"582","DOI":"10.3390\/s16040582","article-title":"High Temperature Shear Horizontal Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer for Guided Wave Inspection","volume":"16","author":"Maria","year":"2016","journal-title":"Sensors"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3458","DOI":"10.3390\/s140203458","article-title":"A new omni-directional EMAT for ultrasonic Lamb wave tomography imaging of metallic plate defects","volume":"14","author":"Huang","year":"2014","journal-title":"Sensors"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Song, X., and Qiu, G. 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