The process of adsorption of water-vapour molecules on uneven (irregular) surfaces of some solid materials at room temperature is registered by infrared camera. The pronounced "thermal flame" ("thermal fire") phenomenon developing on the samples’ surfaces is exhibited and quantitatively represented. This thermal effect ranged within an order of magnitude. 3-μm-wavelength emissivities of differe...

The rapid development of genomic technology has made high throughput genotyping widely accessible but the associated high throughput phenotyping is now the major limiting factor in genetic analysis of traits. This paper evaluates the use of thermal imaging for the high throughput field phenotyping of Solanum tuberosum for differences in stomatal behaviour. A large multi-replicated trial of a po...

The broad aim of this study was to determine whether bedding level in the transport trailer influenced pig performance and welfare. Specifically, the objective was to define the bedding requirements of pigs during transportation in commercial settings during cold and mild weather. Animals (n = 112,078 pigs on 572 trailers) used were raised in commercial finishing sites and transported in traile...

Two non-contact NDT & E (non-destructive testing and evaluation) techniques were employed in the inspection of quarry Pentelic marble samples; surface profilometry and infrared thermography. The samples were processed with different roughness treatments (i.e. 60, 80, 100, 220, 400 and 600 mesh) and were evaluated in the laboratory. Furthermore, different surface cleaning treatments were applied...

A new experimental technique for quantitative analysis of heterogeneous nucleation in undercooled melts is proposed in this paper. It is based on the observation by infrared thermography of the thermal behavior on cooling of a large population of small droplets deposited on a substrate. The method allows analyzing the influence of different parameters such as the size of the droplets, the cooli...

Infrared thermogrpahy was utilized to record the temperature change during tensile loading cycles of two shape memory alloy single crystals with pseudoelastic behavior. During unloading, a giant temperature drop was measured in the gage section due to the elastocaloric effect. This data article provides a video of a [001] oriented Ni2FeGa single crystal, including the corresponding stress-strai...

Non-destructive testing (NDT) by active infrared thermography requires of data processing techniques in order to: i. improve the thermal contrast between defective and non-defective areas, and ii. reduce the large quantity of images recorded during the inspection without losing relevant information. In this paper, the use of the skewness statistic parameter is proposed for the automatic process...

In carrying out the thermographical research of buildings, including the conditions to conduct this thermal imagining of buildings, one must take into account a rather small rank of temperature differences between outer surfaces of buildings and their surroundings. This is particularly vital if one compares other types and methods for carrying our thermography survey. In this connection, for th...

Infants universally elicit in adults a set of solicitous behaviors that are evolutionarily important for the survival of the species. However, exposure, experience, and prejudice appear to govern adults' social choice and ingroup attitudes towards other adults. In the current study, physiological arousal and behavioral judgments were assessed while adults processed unfamiliar infant and adult f...

The macroscopic mechanical behaviour of granular materials is governed by microscopic features at the particle scale. Photoelasticimetry is a powerful method for measuring shear stresses in particles made from birefringent materials. As a complementary method, we here identify the hydrostatic stress networks through thermoelastic stress analysis using infrared thermographic measurements. Experi...