TY - CONF A1 - Schadow, Florian A1 - Brackrock, Daniel A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Heckel, Thomas T1 - Ultrasonic inspection and data analysis of glass- and carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics N2 - Non-destructive testing (NDT) helps to find material defects without having an influence on the material itself. It is applied as a method of quality control, for online structural health monitoring, and for inspection of safety related components. Due to the ability of automation and a simple test setup ultrasonic testing is one major NDT technique next to several existing options. Whereas contact technique allows the use of higher frequencies of some MHz and phased array focusing, air-coupled ultrasonic testing (ACUT) shows different advantages. Most significant for ACUT is the absence of any coupling fluid and an economical test procedure respective time and costs. Both contact technique and ACUT have been improved and enhanced during the past years. One important enhancement is the development of airborne transducers based on ferroelectrets, like charged cellular polypropylene (cpp), which makes the application of any matching layers being mandatory in conventional piezoelectric transducers unnecessary. In this contribution we show ultrasonic inspection results of specimens made of carbon- and glass-fibre-reinforced plastic. These specimens include defects represented by drill holes and artificial delaminations of various size and depth. We compare inspection results achieved by using contact technique to those achieved by ACUT. For ACUT, conventional piezoelectric transducers and transducers based on cpp were used, both focused as well as non-focused types. Contact inspections were performed with a multi-channel matrix array probe. Once the inspection data is recorded it can be analysed in order to detect and evaluate defects in the specimen. We present different analysing strategies and compare these regarding detection rate and sizing of defects. T2 - 3rd International Symposium on Fatigue Design and Material Defects, FDMD 2017 CY - Lecco, Italy DA - 19.09.2017 KW - Ultrasonic testing KW - Air-coupled KW - Carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic KW - Glass-fibre-reinforced KW - Material inspection KW - Defect sizing PY - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-434802 SN - 2452-3216 VL - 7 SP - 299 EP - 306 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-43480 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Röllig, Mathias A1 - Hosseini, Seyed A1 - Heckel, Thomas A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Schadow, Florian A1 - Brackrock, Daniel A1 - Gower, M. A1 - Lodeiro, M. A1 - Baker, G. T1 - Quantitative Bewertung künstlicher und natürlicher Fehler in Faserverbundwerkstoffen mit aktiver Thermografie und Ultraschall N2 - Im EMRP-Projekt VITCEA werden komplementäre ZFP-Verfahren zur Prüfung von Faserverbundwerkstoffen weiterentwickelt und validiert. In diesem Beitrag werden Ergebnisse verschiedener Techniken der aktiven Thermografie und des Ultraschalls vorgestellt. Die Nachweisempfindlichkeiten bezüglich künstlicher und natürlicher Fehler mit unterschiedlichen lateralen Ausdehnungen und in verschiedenen Tiefen werden miteinander verglichen. T2 - DGZfP Jahrestagung 2017 CY - Koblenz, Germany DA - 22.05.2017 KW - CFK KW - GFK KW - Aktive Thermografie KW - Phased Array Ultraschall KW - Luftultraschall PY - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-410902 SN - 978-3-940283-85-6 VL - BB 162 SP - Di1B1, 1 EP - Di1B1, 8 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung e. V. AN - OPUS4-41090 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -