Fast, Accurate, and Reliable Detection of Damage in Aircraft Composites by Advanced Synergistic Infrared Thermography and Phased Array Techniques

This paper presents an advanced methodology for the detection of damage in aircraft composite materials based on sensor fusion two image-based non-destructive evaluation techniques. Both techniques, phased-array ultrasonics and infra-red thermography, are benchmarked aircraft-grade painted material skin panel with stringers. The sensors systems carrying out inspections have been developed miniaturized being integrated a vortex-robotic platform inspector, framework larger research initiative, Horizon-2020 ‘CompInnova’ project.