The contribution deals with state of the art non-destructive testing method – active infrared thermography. The method can be used for revealing of defects and inhomogenities inside the bodies, e.g. bubbles and cracks in materials, which can have crucial importance from the point of view of their physical-mechanical properties. Goal of the research is theoretical evaluation of the performance o...

High-temperature pressure pipelines are extensively used in petrochemical plant and power stations. Severe pits or wall loss defects can be internally produced after a certain period of time due to media corrosion and cavitation erosion. These defects finally lead to leakage of the pipes. In order to search for a good non-destructive method for these defects, a large pipe testing installation w...

conclusions there were significant distinctions in the skin temperature distribution during exercise according to the activity of the area under consideration during exercise, which may be important in the development of physiological models and heat flux analyses for different purposes. results during pre-exercise, all tsk reached a steady-state (p ≤ 0.05), which ensured adequate thermal stabi...

PURPOSE We evaluated the sensitivity of 3 noninvasive methods for detecting left and right varicoceles. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three noninvasive methods for the detection of varicocele in the left and right internal spermatic veins were evaluated in 214 infertile men, namely, physical examination, scrotal contact thermography and ultrasound Doppler. Venography was used as the reference diagnos...

In this work heat flux thermography algorithms are proposed to suppress false indications that appear when testing steel billets with inductive thermography. Not only temperature amplitudes are used for evaluation but also the time dependancy of the temperature profile, different types of cooling rates and signal shape parameters. These new algorithms were tested successfully in a rolling mill....

A new experimental approach based on infrared thermography is proposed in this paper for studying crystal growth kinetics in undercooled melts. The crystallization of a thin sample of an undercooled melt at constant bulk temperature is induced by a small crystal seed and the growth of the solid phase is observed using infrared camera. The recorded thermal images allow determining the position o...

This work presents collaboration between electronics industry and University aimed to develop novel power cycling methodology combined with IR thermography for quality and reliability studies of microelectronic assemblies. For this purpose an array of programmable Thermo Electric Converters (TEC) was designed and constructed [1]. The array provides possibility of introduction of controlled anis...

Infrared (IR) thermography is a nondestructive, non-contact and non-intrusive technique that allows the fast inspection of large and complex structures with limited accessibility. Pulsed thermography is particularly interesting for the inspection of aerospace materials such as composites given that, after submitting the specimen surface to a thermal front, the most common types of subsurface di...

Two of the most exciting, yet overlooked, diagnostic procedures of this century are Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI) and Contact Regulation Thermography (CRT), otherwise simply termed thermography. Dr. Ali Meschi is a board-certified naturopathic physician at the forefront of this technique. "Thermography is a non-invasive, objective [and] non-radiative tool that uses [body heat] to diag...

Active dynamic thermography was proved to be a new alternative for crack detection. To achieve zero failure sheet metal production in the press shop, this method was investigated for different steel components, which were directly collected from series production. And the cracks in the presented specimens differ in length and in depth, and a series study on these surface cracks is executed. The...