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Lookup NU author(s): Qiuji Yi, Professor Gui Yun TianORCiD, Bengisu Yilmaz, Hamed Malekmohammadi
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© 2019. Contaminations arising during the manufacturing or usage of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP)-epoxy adhesive single-lap joints can drastically affect the mechanical performance of the structure and eventually lead to its catastrophic failure. Eddy current stimulated thermography has been recently proposed for detecting and characterizing defects in composite materials. The characterization of debonding in adhesive single-lap joints in composites by eddy current stimulated thermography can be challenging due to the anisotropic thermal diffusion caused by the anisotropic conductivity and multi-layer nature of the composites. This work tackles the challenge of detecting the interface contamination by combining eddy current pulse-compression thermography and image post-processing algorithms. The impulse responses from samples containing either brass, release film or release agent contaminations obtained through pulse-compression combined with Eddy Current Pulsed Thermography (ECPT). Non-uniform heating patterns are removed by partial least square technique. Then, the time instants containing meaningful information about the contaminated interface layer are inferred by comparing each norm of kernel principal component over suitable time windows. The evaluation of contamination depths and properties are conducted in selected time windows by principal component analysis and time-phase analysis. Results proved that release agent contamination plays the minor role in changing the electrical and thermal properties of the single-lap joints compared with brass and release film.
Author(s): Yi Q, Tian GY, Yilmaz B, Malekmohammadi H, Laureti S, Ricci M, Jasiuniene E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Composites Part B: Engineering
Year: 2019
Volume: 178
Print publication date: 01/12/2019
Online publication date: 19/09/2019
Acceptance date: 16/09/2019
Date deposited: 12/12/2019
ISSN (print): 1359-8368
ISSN (electronic): 1879-1069
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2019.107461
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2019.107461
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