Spatial and temporal control of thermal waves by using DMDs for interference based crack detection

Erik Thiel; Marc Kreutzbruck; Mathias Ziegler

doi:10.1117/12.2210918

15 March 2016 Spatial and temporal control of thermal waves by using DMDs for interference based crack detection

Erik Thiel, Marc Kreutzbruck, Mathias Ziegler

Proceedings Volume 9761, Emerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications VIII; 97610N (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2210918
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Active Thermography is a well-established non-destructive testing method and used to detect cracks, voids or material inhomogeneities. It is based on applying thermal energy to a samples’ surface whereas inner defects alter the nonstationary heat flow. Conventional excitation of a sample is hereby done spatially, either planar (e.g. using a lamp) or local (e.g. using a focused laser) and temporally, either pulsed or periodical. In this work we combine a high power laser with a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) allowing us to merge all degrees of freedom to a spatially and temporally controlled heat source. This enables us to exploit the possibilities of coherent thermal wave shaping. Exciting periodically while controlling at the same time phase and amplitude of the illumination source induces – via absorption at the sample’s surface - a defined thermal wave propagation through a sample. That means thermal waves can be controlled almost like acoustical or optical waves. However, in contrast to optical or acoustical waves, thermal waves are highly damped due to the diffusive character of the thermal heat flow and therefore limited in penetration depth in relation to the achievable resolution. Nevertheless, the coherence length of thermal waves can be chosen in the mmrange for modulation frequencies below 10 Hz which is perfectly met by DMD technology. This approach gives us the opportunity to transfer known technologies from wave shaping techniques to thermography methods. We will present experiments on spatial and temporal wave shaping, demonstrating interference based crack detection.

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Erik Thiel, Marc Kreutzbruck, and Mathias Ziegler "Spatial and temporal control of thermal waves by using DMDs for interference based crack detection", Proc. SPIE 9761, Emerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications VIII, 97610N (15 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2210918

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