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- Active thermography (2)
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- A. Laminates (1)
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Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) specimens with artificial delaminations and with impact damage have been characterized using active thermography with flash excitation. Systematic investigations have been performed in four different experimental configurations of flash lamps and infrared (IR) camera in transmission as well as in reflection alignment. It is shown here that the diffusivities determined for the sound and for the damaged areas give a good measure for damage characterization. Although reflection measurements also give information about defect depth, reflection measurements from only one side are not sufficient for assessing the whole cross section of the specimens. Thus, depending on sample thickness the lateral size of damage could only be determined from reflections measurements from both sides or from transmission measurements. In this paper, measurement accuracy and limits of flash thermography for the investigation of CFRP specimens are presented in detail together with quantitative data concerning the defects.
Standards for the application of flash thermography as well as of lock-in thermography are urgently required.
Both methods are applied more and more often in research and industry, but still extensive validation procedures are required for each individual application. In this paper, the results of two research projects concerning the validation and standardisation of both methods are presented. This includes results of a detailed study of the influence of measurements parameters on flash thermography, of the comparison of the lateral resolution obtained with flash and lock-in thermography and the description of a draft standard for flash thermography.
We present a systematic study on the performance of laser-thermography for the detection of surface cracks in metallic components. Scanning a metallic surface with laser causes local heating that is mapped simultaneously by an IR-camera and allows identifying cracks with sub-µm openings. The detectability, however, depends on a number of acquisition parameters (e.g. scanning speed, laser power, IR-camera resolution) that typically relate on each other. Most importantly, the detection-sensitivity of surface breaking cracks is given by a particular combination for the acquisition parameter values. As a result, this sensitivity is adaptable within wide ranges allowing the detection of cracks with openings ranging from 200 to 0.1 µm at testing speeds of 100 to 0.05 cm²/s. By examining artificial as well as fatigue cracks, we demonstrate that the method can be even applied to shiny surfaces with no need of pretreatments, which makes it an entirely contactless, remote and automatable NDT technique. A comparison with magnetic particle testing shows that laser-thermography has the potential to become a strong competitor to conventional surface inspection methods in the future.
Flash lamps are widely used excitation sources in the field of non-destructive testing with active thermography. Though the realized energy density in front of the investigated object is a significant factor with regard to detection sensitivity, only few data concerning this issue have been published so far. It is shown here that local energy densities can be estimated by means of a simple metal plate, which exhibits a certain temperature increase after flash excitation. After discussing the underlying calorimetric principle the sensor concept is reviewed using constant blackbody radiation and short laser pulses, since both kinds of sources generate known energy densities. The relative uncertainty of measurements of the energy density is found to be in the range of 10%. The last part of the present paper describes an application for characterizing the radiation of a usual 6 kJ flash lamp. The energy conversion efficiency was found to be only about 11%.
Lockin thermography as well as flash thermography are very well suited for non-destructive testing and characterisation of inhomogeneities and damage in CFRP structures. Both methods are applied more and more in research and industry, but until know it is not clear which are the advantages of one method against the other. In
this paper, results of two research projects concerning the validation and standardisation of both methods are presented. Three different types of CFRP test specimens consisting of well-defined flat bottom holes, of artificial delaminations made of PTFE plates embedded in CFRP and of real impact damage have been investigated systematically with flash and lockin excitation. Here, the phase images of both methods are compared qualitatively as well as quantitatively.
Active thermography is an efficient non-destructive testing method for investigating the internal structure of larger carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) components as well as smaller CFRP components in mass customization. The method can be applied contactless and automated. This study contains systematic investigations of CFRP structures with typical defects and inhomogeneities occurring during production by means of flash thermography in reflection and transmission configuration and by computed tomography (CT). The latter one was used as a reference method, since also very small defects at larger depth can be visualized with high spatial resolution. The CFRP structures consist of plates which contain metallic and non-metallic inclusions, contaminations with glue or wax rests, areas with inhomogeneous re-injection of dry parts, fiber misalignments, and fiber damages. Further on, two specimens have been glued together with different artificial inhomogeneities of the four glue beads. The results of the applied methods are compared and the advantages and disadvantages of each configuration are discussed based on the detectability of the inhomogeneities. It is shown that although CT has led to best contrasts and spatial resolutions in displaying the inhomogeneities and inclusions, flash thermography is very well suited to detect most of these structures. Considering that flash thermography can be applied on-site and has a high potential for automation and for a fast and efficient testing, it can be highly recommended for quality assurance during and after production of CFRP structures.