45411 2018 eng lecture 0 -- -- -- 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. 14th Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Conference Berlin, Germany 25.06.2018 29.06.2018 0 Simon Altenburg eng uncontrolled Finite pulse length eng uncontrolled Flash thermography eng uncontrolled Laplace transform eng uncontrolled NDT eng uncontrolled Pulse shape eng uncontrolled Thickness determination Analytische Chemie Datei im Netzwerk der BAM verfügbar ("Closed Access") Präsentation