TY - GEN A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Röllig, Mathias A1 - Kalisch, U. A1 - Meinhardt, J. ED - Büyüköztürk, O. ED - Tasdemir, M.A. ED - Günes, O. ED - Akkaya, Y. T1 - Development and application of active thermography for monitoring of deterioration processes of historic structures T2 - Nondestructive testing of materials and structures N2 - As shown recently, the quantification of damage in historic masonry structures is possible by using active thermography. In this paper, a case study is presented concerning systematic studies of the determination of damage size and prognosis of damage increase inside a sandstone column by using different approaches of active thermography. Various heating sources as well as impulse and periodic heating have been compared. Reproducible investigations in regular time intervals for structural monitoring are possible. KW - Active thermography KW - Camera calibration KW - Historic structure KW - Monitoring KW - Sandstone PY - 2013 SN - 978-94-007-0722-1 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0723-8_154 SN - 2211-0844 N1 - Serientitel: RILEM bookseries – Series title: RILEM bookseries VL - 6 SP - 1111 EP - 1116 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-28263 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Röllig, Mathias ED - Büyüköztürk, O. ED - Tasdemir, M.A. ED - Günes, O. ED - Akkaya, Y. T1 - Thermographic investigation of delaminated plaster on concrete T2 - Nondestructive testing of materials and structures N2 - Active thermography is sensitive to inhomogeneities at and below the surface of objects investigated. Thus, it should be useful for detecting plaster delaminations on concrete. In this paper, the results of field and laboratory investigations into plaster-covered concrete were compared. For evaluating the bonding state of the plaster it is not sufficient to study only the thermal contrasts at the surface of the investigated objects. The experimental results suggest that the overall thermal behaviour has to be considered. KW - Active thermography KW - Bonding problems KW - Concrete KW - Plaster PY - 2013 SN - 978-94-007-0722-1 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0723-8_112 SN - 2211-0844 N1 - Serientitel: RILEM bookseries – Series title: RILEM bookseries VL - 6 SP - 758 EP - 791 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-28264 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Götschel, S. A1 - Weiser, M. A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Richter, Regina A1 - Röllig, Mathias ED - Büyüköztürk, O. ED - Tasdemir, M.A. ED - Günes, O. ED - Akkaya, Y. T1 - Fast defect shape reconstruction based on the travel time in pulse thermography T2 - Nondestructive testing of materials and structures N2 - Pulse thermography is a non-destructive testing method based on ­infrared imaging of transient thermal patterns. Heating the surface of the structure under test for a short period of time generates a non-stationary temperature distribution and thus a thermal contrast between the defect and the sound material. In modern NDT, a quantitative characterization of hidden imperfections in materials is desired. In particular, defect depth and shape are of interest. The reconstruction of the defect from thermography data is a nonlinear inverse problem, and ill-posed. We propose an algorithm for the identification of subsurface defects based on the travel time of the reflected thermal pulse. Our work extends results by Lugin and Netzelmann, taking lateral thermal flows directly into account while retrieving the defect depth. This requires significantly less computational work. Quantitative information about the defect shape and depth is obtained. Application of our method to both thermography data generated by a finite element simulation and experimental heating of PVC test specimens with different defects yields good reconstruction of the actual defects. KW - Defect shape reconstruction KW - Finite element simulation KW - Pulsed thermography KW - Quantitative characterization KW - Thermal contrast KW - Inversion KW - Aktive Thermografie KW - Wanddicke KW - Rückwand KW - Minderdicken KW - Schichtdicken KW - Thermische Welle PY - 2013 SN - 978-94-007-0722-1 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0723-8_11 SN - 2211-0844 N1 - Serientitel: RILEM bookseries – Series title: RILEM bookseries VL - 6 SP - 83 EP - 89 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-27619 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -