TY - CONF A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer T1 - Continuous and Laplace transformable approximation for the temporal pulse shape of Xe-flash lamps for flash thermography N2 - In flash thermography, the temperature transient is strongly influenced by the temporal shape of the heating pulse for samples with high thermal diffusivity or very thin samples. Here, we present a closed phenomenological approximation of the temporal shape of pulses of Xe-flash lamps. It is a non-stitched solution, has a simple Laplace transform and is suitable for different lamps and energy settings. It is demonstrated that simulated temperature transients, based on this approximation, are well consistent with experimental data. T2 - 14th Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Conference CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 25.06.2018 KW - Finite pulse length KW - Flash thermography KW - Laplace transform KW - NDT KW - Pulse shape KW - Thickness determination PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-45411 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -