Characterization of crack propagation during sonic IR inspection

Jacob Kephart; John Chen; Hong Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.604243

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28 March 2005 Characterization of crack propagation during sonic IR inspection

Jacob Kephart, John Chen, Hong Zhang

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Proceedings Volume 5782, Thermosense XXVII; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.604243
Event: Defense and Security, 2005, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Sonic IR is an emerging, thermal-based, nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technique. Typically a short burst of high power acoustical energy is injected into an object being studied and certain types of defects heat up and is detected using a thermal imaging camera. This inspection technique is very fast, lasting only a few seconds for total inspection time. However due to many uncertainties in the inspection process it has yet to be adopted widely by industry. There are many unknown parameters governing sonic IR, which need to be understood before it becomes a widely used NDE technique. This paper shows that under certain conditions cracks can grow when subjected to the sonic IR technique. We also examine the effects of various experimental parameters on the technique.

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Jacob Kephart, John Chen, and Hong Zhang "Characterization of crack propagation during sonic IR inspection", Proc. SPIE 5782, Thermosense XXVII, (28 March 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.604243

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