Electromagnetic mechanism of Joule heating and thermal conduction on conductive
material characterization broadens their scope for implementation in real thermography …

Small cracks are common defects in steel and often lead to catastrophic accidents in
industrial applications. Various nondestructive testing methods have been investigated for …

Inductive thermography is one kind of infrared thermography (IRT) technique, which is
effective in detection of front surface cracks in metal plates. However, rear surface cracks are …

A new active infrared thermography based technique is proposed for defect detection in
ferromagnetic specimens using a low frequency alternating magnetic field induced heating …

Active infrared (IR) thermographic nondestructive testing (NDT) has become a valuable
inspection method for composite materials due to its high sensitivity to particular types of …

Defect visualization method plays an important role in eddy current thermography. However,
there is no effective visualization method for dynamic detection of eddy current …

Honeycomb composite structures are increasingly being used in the aviation and aerospace
industries. For convenient quality evaluation of such advanced composites, several kinds of …

In the present work, our objective is to obtain reliable results for the detection of cracks
through the use of simple digital image processing methods as an alternative to …

In this paper, the scattered surface waves created by a surface crack in a homogeneous,
isotropic, viscoelastic half space within a plane strain condition was studied. The amplitude …

Cracking is a predominant factor in engineering accidents, often leading to catastrophic
failures. The evolutionary process of cracks in materials starts at the microscopic level …