Electrical approach to defect depth estimation by stepped infrared thermography

2004 ◽  
Vol 151 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Gupta ◽  
S. Tuli
Author(s):  
Qiang Fang ◽  
farima abdollahi-mamoudan ◽  
Xavier Maldague

Infrared thermography has already been proven to be a significant method in non-destructive evaluation since it gives information with immediacy, rapidity, and low cost. However, the thorniest issue for the wider application of IRT is quantification. In this work, we proposed a specific depth quantifying technique by employing the Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) in composite material samples via pulsed thermography (PT). Finite Element Method (FEM) modeling provides the economic examination of the response pulsed thermography. In this work, Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) specimens embedded with flat bottom holes are stimulated by a FEM modeling (COMSOL) with precisely controlled depth and geometrics of the defects. The GRU model automatically quantified the depth of defects presented in the stimulated CFRP material. The proposed method evaluated the accuracy and performance of synthetic CFRP data from FEM for defect depth predictions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 6819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Fang ◽  
Xavier Maldague

Infrared thermography has already been proven to be a significant method in non-destructive evaluation since it gives information with immediacy, rapidity, and low cost. However, the thorniest issue for the wider application of IRT is quantification. In this work, we proposed a specific depth quantifying technique by employing the Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) in composite material samples via pulsed thermography (PT). Finite Element Method (FEM) modeling provides the economic examination of the response pulsed thermography. In this work, Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) specimens embedded with flat bottom holes are stimulated by a FEM modeling (COMSOL) with precisely controlled depth and geometrics of the defects. The GRU model automatically quantified the depth of defects presented in the stimulated CFRP material. The proposed method evaluated the accuracy and performance of synthetic CFRP data from FEM for defect depth predictions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3451
Author(s):  
Qiang Fang ◽  
Xavier. Maldague

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Author(s):  
Qiang Fang ◽  
and Xavier. Maldague

Infrared thermography has already been proven to be a significant method in non-destructive evaluation since it gives information with immediacy, rapidity and low cost. However, the thorniest issue for wider application of IRT is the quantification. In this work, we proposed a specific depth quantifying technique by employing the Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) in composite material samples via pulsed thermography (PT). Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer(CFRP) embedded with flat bottom holes were designed via Finite Element Method (FEM) modeling in order to precisely control the depth and geometrics of the defects. The GRU model automatically quantified the depth of defects presented in the CFRP material. The proposed method evaluated the accuracy and performance of synthetic CFRP data from FEM for defect depth predictions.


Author(s):  
Qiang Fang ◽  
Xavier Maldague

Infrared thermography has already been proved to be a significant method in non-destructive evaluation since it gives information with immediacy, rapidity and low cost. However, the thorniest issue for wider application of IRT is the quantification. In this work, we proposed a specific depth quantifying technique by employing the Gated Recurrent Unites (GRU) in composite material samples via pulsed thermography (PT). Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) embedded with flat bottom holes were designed via Finite Element Method (FEM) modeling in order to precisely control the depth and geometrics of the defects. The GRU model automatically quantify the depth of defects presented in the Plexiglasses materials. The proposed evaluated the accuracy and performance of synthetic plexiglasses data from FEM for defect depth predictions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 6387
Author(s):  
Li Xu ◽  
Jianzhong Hu

Active infrared thermography (AIRT) is a significant defect detection and evaluation method in the field of non-destructive testing, on account of the fact that it promptly provides visual information and that the results could be used for quantitative research of defects. At present, the quantitative evaluation of defects is an urgent problem to be solved in this field. In this work, a defect depth recognition method based on gated recurrent unit (GRU) networks is proposed to solve the problem of insufficient accuracy in defect depth recognition. AIRT is applied to obtain the raw thermal sequences of the surface temperature field distribution of the defect specimen. Before training the GRU model, principal component analysis (PCA) is used to reduce the dimension and to eliminate the correlation of the raw datasets. Then, the GRU model is employed to automatically recognize the depth of the defect. The defect depth recognition performance of the proposed method is evaluated through an experiment on polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) with flat bottom holes. The results indicate that the PCA-processed datasets outperform the raw temperature datasets in model learning when assessing defect depth characteristics. A comparison with the BP network shows that the proposed method has better performance in defect depth recognition.


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