Inspection reliability of small-scale defects, targeting dimensions below 100 µm, is crucial for
structural safety of critical components in high-value applications. Early defects are often …

Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques are used in many industries to evaluate the
properties of components and inspect for flaws and anomalies in structures without altering …

Engineering structures and infrastructure continue to be used despite approaching or having
reached their design lifetime. While contact-based measurement techniques are challenging …

Over the last two decades, the integration of big data and deep learning technologies has
demonstrated remarkable effectiveness across various domains of civil engineering, leading …

With a wide range of applications, image segmentation is a complex and difficult
preprocessing step that plays an important role in automatic visual systems, which accuracy …

Non-destructive evaluation of aircraft production is optimised and digitalised with Industry
4.0. The aircraft structures produced using fibre metal laminate are traditionally inspected …

The metallurgical industry is the manufacturing industry with the highest carbon emissions in
China. Carbon emission in blast furnace accounts for 73.6% of the total long process flow …

Due to the large detection range and high sensitivity to damages, Lamb waves are widely
used in the localization and quantification of structural damages in a plate structure. The …

Inspection methods, also known as non-destructive evaluation (NDE), is a process for
inspecting materials, products, and facilities to identify flaws, imperfections, and malfunctions …

This paper proposes a non-destructive defect inspection technique based on infrared
thermal imaging and improved YOLOv5 algorithm to achieve accurate inspection of finned …