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Principal component thermography for flaw contrast enhancement and flaw depth characterisation in composite structures

Nik Rajic
- 01 Dec 2002 - 
- Vol. 58, Iss: 4, pp 521-528
TLDR
In this article, principal component thermography (PCT) is applied to the non-destructive inspection of composite structures, and a simple analytical expression is derived that relates a characteristic time furnished by the decomposition to the flaw depth, providing a basis for flaw depth estimation.
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This article is published in Composite Structures.The article was published on 2002-12-01. It has received 556 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thermographic inspection & Thermography.

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Medical applications of infrared thermography: A review.

TL;DR: The present efforts are focused on automatic analysis of temperature distribution of regions of interest and their statistical analysis for detection of abnormalities in the area of medical IRT.
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Infrared thermography for temperature measurement and non-destructive testing.

TL;DR: A general introduction to infrared thermography and the common procedures for temperature measurement and non-destructive testing are presented and developments in these fields and recent advances are reviewed.
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Recent Advances in Active Infrared Thermography for Non-Destructive Testing of Aerospace Components.

TL;DR: This review provides an exhaustive summary of most recent active thermographic methods used for aerospace applications according to their physical principle and thermal excitation sources.
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Comparative Study of Active Thermography Techniques for the Nondestructive Evaluation of Honeycomb Structures

TL;DR: In this article, the theoretical and experimental aspects of three active thermography approaches: pulsed thermography, lock-in thermography and vibrothermography are discussed in relation to the nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of honeycomb sandwich structures.
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Review of pulsed thermal NDT: Physical principles, theory and data processing

TL;DR: In this article, the basics of pulsed thermal nondestructive testing (TNDT) including theoretical solutions, data processing algorithms and practical implementation are discussed along with 1D analytical and multi-dimensional numerical solutions.
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Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography

TL;DR: Time-series Analysis Methods and Error Handling: The Spatial Analyses of Data Fields, a meta-analysis of Stochastic processes and stationarity.
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Pulse phase infrared thermography

TL;DR: In this article, an approach combining both of pulse (PT) and modulated infrared thermography is proposed which combines simultaneously advantages both of PT and MODI, and the results are presented and the theory is discussed as well.
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Nondestructive testing handbook

TL;DR: The ASNT Industry Handbook as mentioned in this paper contains a section on applications and new information based on computer advances in imaging and data processing, which is intended to be used with a comprehensive NDT text such as volumes from the Nondestructive Testing Handbook series.
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Two-Dimensional Cure Simulation of Thick Thermosetting Composites

TL;DR: In this paper, an investigation into the two-dimensional cure simulation of thick thermosetting composites is presented, where temperature and degree of cure distributions within arbitrary cross-sectional geometries are predicted as a function of the autoclave temperature history.
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