TY - CONF A1 - Götschel, S. A1 - Weiser, M. A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Richter, Regina ED - Cardone, G. T1 - Data enhancement for active thermography T2 - QIRT 11 - 11th International conference on Quantitative InfraRed Thermography CY - Naples, Italy DA - 2012-06-11 KW - Datenglättung KW - Rekonstruktion PY - 2012 SP - 1 EP - 9(?) AN - OPUS4-26447 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Richter, Regina A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc T1 - Numerical method of active thermography for the reconstruction of back wall geometry N2 - The paper presents a numerical method to detect and characterise defects and inhomogeneities by means of active thermography. The objective was to determine the wall thickness of structure elements with an inaccessible back wall, e.g., elements of pipes or containers. As test specimens we used PVC samples with the thickness of about 2 cm that had spatial variations in the back wall geometry. Flash lamps provided the heating. To measure the thickness of the wall, we employed the Levenberg–Marquardt method, which we applied here to experimental thermographic data for non-destructive testing. We started the inversion procedure by making a rough first estimation of the back wall geometry following the echo defect shape method, and then we calculated the thickness of the back wall. We found reasonable reconstruction results which differed from the real value significantly below 1 mm at the defect centre, whereas the error wais increased at the edge of the defect, depending on its shape and depth. KW - Pulse thermography KW - Wall thickness KW - Inverse problems KW - Reconstruction KW - Defects KW - Rekonstruktion KW - Inverse Probleme KW - Defekte PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2012.10.010 SN - 0963-8695 VL - 54 SP - 189 EP - 197 PB - Butterworth-Heinemann CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-28895 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Richter, Regina A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc T1 - Numerische Verfahren für die aktive Thermografie zur Untersuchung der Rückwand T2 - DGZfP-Jahrestagung 2011 CY - Bremen, Germany DA - 2011-05-30 PY - 2011 AN - OPUS4-24105 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -