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Active thermography for non-destructive testing applications

Active Thermography
Active thermal measurement methods are based on the evaluation of a previously excited heat flow in the tested component and its disturbance by hidden defects. The heat flow is generated with a heat pulse or through sinusoidal modulation. The testing is carried out with a thermography camera followed by a mathematical analysis of the measured sequence to extract the for a reliable defect detection necessary information.

Lockin Thermography
Set-up of a non-destructive test system based on active thermography Lock-In Thermography is a method to significantly increase the signal-to-noise ratio for active thermography applications. The heat flux hereby is being analyzed, and the time delay of heat flux is displayed thus revealing important material properties or flaws.

Passive Thermography
The objective of conventional thermography is the measurement of surface temperatures. The thermography system detects the, of a body emitted, temperature dependent infrared heat radiation. Using the so-called passive thermography, one can get contactless information about the surface. Nowadays, with high-resolution thermography systems, it is possible to detect temperature differences of 10 mK.

Excitation methods for active thermography

The thermography methods listed below are well established in nondestructive testing of materials: OTvis - optically excited lock-in thermography PTvis - pulse thermography LTvis - Laser excited thermography ITvis - induction thermography UTvis - ultrasound excited thermography (vibrothermography)

Automated process control

Many processes which involve temperature changes or heat flux can be observed and controlled with an infrared camera. This can be an exotherm process revealing heat during production, or samples which should reach or should not exceed a certain temperature. Such a process can be for instance the functional control of a seat heater for automotive application. With the edevis image processing system QTvis such an automated test and evaluation is an easy and cost efficient task.

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