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Reliability assessment of pulsed thermography and ultrasonic testing for impact damage of CFRP panels

  • Yuxia Duan*
  • , Hai Zhang
  • , Xavier P.V. Maldague
  • , Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo
  • , Pierre Servais
  • , Marc Genest
  • , Stefano Sfarra
  • , Jianqiao Meng
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Physics
  • Université Laval
  • Societé NDT Pro
  • National Research Council of Canada
  • University of L'Aquila
  • Tomsk Polytechnic University

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Abstract

In order to quantitatively compare the reliability of pulsed thermography and ultrasonic testing techniques, a set of thirty-five Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) composite panels with impact damages are inspected by pulsed thermography and ultrasonic C-scan. The comparative experimental results and Probability of Detection (PoD) analysis results are presented. The quantitative comparison shows that pulsed thermography testing has smaller defect size at 90% PoD with 95% confidence level, i.e. a90/95 values than ultrasonic testing for the parameters and setup used in the inspections of these thirty-five CFRP composite panels.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)77-83
Number of pages7
JournalNDT and E International
Volume102
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • CFRP
  • Impact damage
  • Probability of detection
  • Thermography
  • Ultrasonic testing

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