Defect Detection and Quantification in Laminated Composites by EATF (Passive) Thermography
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
This site provides free, public access to papers presented at the annual QNDE conference between 1983 and 1999, and abstracts for papers presented at the conference since 2001.
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For over twenty years [1–3, for example] thermography has been under development as a nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technique for composite materials. Several techniques are in use in laboratory, manufacturing quality control, and field inspection applications. The purpose of this paper is to present the capabilities of the externally applied thermal field (EATF) [4] (also called passive [5]) thermographic NDE method, to discuss the applications for which it seems best suited, to describe its limitations, and to highlight directions of further development.