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Infrared Image Correlation for Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation of Materials

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The active thermal non-destructive testing and evaluation technique plays a vital role in health monitoring of various solid materials. Present manuscript demonstrates the applicability of pulse compression favorable Digitized version of linear Frequency Modulated Thermal Wave Imaging (DFMTWI) approach to identify flaws having different geometrical shapes in a Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) sample. A novel Thermal Image Correlation (TIC) data-processing approach is proposed to obtain the isothermal patterns from the reconstructed pulse compressed data through matched filter scheme to identify sub-surface anomalies. The detection capabilities of the presented approach are compared on various adopted data processing approaches.

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  1. School of Electronics, Indian Institute of Information Technology Una, Chandpur, Teh. Haroli, Distt. Una, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Vanita Arora & Sumit Kumar

  2. Manpower Development in Instrument Technology (MDIT) Laboratory, Centre for Sensors, iNstrumentation and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering (SeNSE), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110016, India

    Ravibabu Mulaveesala

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, InfraRed Imaging Laboratory (IRIL), Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, 140001, India

    Anju Rani, Vansha Kher, Priyanka Mishra & Jasleen Kaur

  4. Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Punjab, 147004, India

    Geetika Dua

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihta, Patna, 801106, India

    Rajib Kumar Jha

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Arora, V., Mulaveesala, R., Rani, A. et al. Infrared Image Correlation for Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation of Materials. J Nondestruct Eval 40, 75 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-021-00805-6

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