TY - GEN A1 - Müller, Jan P. T1 - Influence of the real energy input on the sensitivity of thermographic testing in case of GFRP N2 - Thermographic testing (TT) is an upcoming nondestructive method, which requires no contact at all to the specimen and can be applied on larger areas simultaneously. The measurement concept is based on the production of a thermal imbalance at the surface of the object under test. When the surface of this object is heated by an external source for a certain time, the surface temperature drops subsequently, influenced by inner defects of the sample. This leads to thermal contrasts at the surface. It is crucial that those contrasts are large enough to be detectable above the noise level. In a first approximation, the observed temperature contrast at a defect is proportional to the energy which was really introduced into the specimen during the heating period. However, the real energy input in a TT experiment is almost always unknown due to distinct parameters of the experimental setup or the material investigated. Typically, only the power consumption of the heating sources is reported, sometimes combined with the distance to the specimen surface. This contribution describes the thermographic inspection of a rear side thickness variation from 1 to 2 cm at GFRP. This could represent a rear side adhesive bond i.e. in a wind turbine rotor blade. The front side heating was realized by usual halogen lamps with variable radiation power. The detected temperature contrast at the front side will be related to the different energy inputs determined by means of a simple analytical model applied to the experimental data. Additionally, the experimental data are compared with results of FEM simulations performed by COMSOL Multiphysics. The results clearly demonstrate the key role of the real energy input in a real TT setup, if detection limits have to be evaluated. T2 - ECNDT 2018 CY - Göteborg, Sweden DA - 11.06.2018 KW - GFK KW - Thermografie mit Stufenanregung KW - Rotorblatt KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung KW - Energieeintrag PY - 2018 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45374 AN - OPUS4-45374 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany