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Effect of Spectral Reshaping on Frequency Modulated Thermal Wave Imaging for Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation of Steel Material

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Infrared thermographic techniques show their potential usage for non-destructive testing and evaluation of various materials due to their inherent capabilities such as whole field, non-contact, qualitative and quantitative to detect surface and sub-surface anomalies. This contribution introduces a novel data analysis scheme by spectral reshaping of linear frequency modulated temperature profile captured over a mild steel specimen. Time and frequency domain based processing methods are adopted on the generated temporal thermal data to reveal the hidden defects. Obtained results show the potential capabilities of spectral reshaping based on Gaussian windowed chirp with enhanced resolution and sensitivity for sub-surface defect detection.

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Authors would like to acknowledge the support of the SERC, DST, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India through the research grant (SB/S3/EECE/089/2014 dated 02-06-2014), which transformed the development of thermal wave imaging method into a novel, promising non-destructive testing technique, suitable to characterization of materials.

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  1. InfraRed Imaging Laboratory (IRIL), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Nangal Road, Rupnagar, Punjab, 140001, India

    Vanita Arora & Ravibabu Mulaveesala

  2. ITC-CNR, Corso Stati Uniti, 4, 35127, Padova, Italy

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Arora, V., Mulaveesala, R. & Bison, P. Effect of Spectral Reshaping on Frequency Modulated Thermal Wave Imaging for Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation of Steel Material. J Nondestruct Eval 35, 15 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-015-0333-5

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