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Eddy current pulsed thermography(ECPT) is an emerging Non-destructive testing and evaluation(NDT & E) technique, which uses hybrid eddy current and thermography NDT & E techniques that enhances the detectability from their compensation. Currently, this technique is limited by the manual selection of proper contrast frames and the issue of improving the efficiency of defect detection of complex structure samples remains a challenge. In order to select a specific frame from transient thermal image sequences to maximize the contrast of thermal variation and defect pattern from complex structure samples, an energy driven approach to compute the coefficient energy of wavelet transform is proposed which has the potential of automatically selecting both optimal transient frame and spatial scale for defect detection using ECPT. According to analysis of the variation of different frequency component and the comparison study of the detection performance of different scale and wavelets, the frame at the end of heating phase is automatically selected as an optimal transient frame for defect detection. In addition, the detection capabilities of the complex structure samples can be enhanced through proper spatial scale and wavelet selection. The proposed method has successfully been applied to low speed impact damage detection of carbon fibre reinforced polymer(CFRP) composite as well as providing the guidance to improve the detectability of ECPT technique.
Author(s): Yang HL, Gao B, Tian GY, Ren WW, Woo WL
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Year: 2014
Volume: 27
Issue: 4
Pages: 768-778
Print publication date: 01/07/2014
Online publication date: 25/07/2014
Acceptance date: 21/04/2014
ISSN (print): 1000-9345
ISSN (electronic): 2192-8258
Publisher: Springer
URL: https://doi.org/10.3901/CJME.2014.0421.079
DOI: 10.3901/CJME.2014.0526.100
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