TY - PAT
T1 - Apparatus, system and method for inspecting composite structures using quantitative infra-red thermography
AU - Villette, Thibault
AU - Traidia, Abderrazak
AU - Amer, Ayman Mohamed Mahmoud
AU - Abdel Latif, Fadl Hicham Fadl
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2019-02-13
PY - 2018/10/18
Y1 - 2018/10/18
N2 - A system and method for inspecting a surface of a structure for defects includes an inspection apparatus having a heating device for heating a section of the surface of the structure, an infrared camera for receiving infrared radiation from the surface in response to heating, a controller configured to generate thermographs from the received infrared radiation, and a communication device. A training system includes an expert system module configured to determine correlations between a set of thermographs generated by a thermal simulation of modeled structural elements with defects, and parameters of the modeled structural elements. A computer system communicatively coupled to the training system and the inspection apparatus, is adapted to receive thermographs received from the inspection apparatus and to detect quantitative parameters of defects in the structure using the correlations obtained from the training system.
AB - A system and method for inspecting a surface of a structure for defects includes an inspection apparatus having a heating device for heating a section of the surface of the structure, an infrared camera for receiving infrared radiation from the surface in response to heating, a controller configured to generate thermographs from the received infrared radiation, and a communication device. A training system includes an expert system module configured to determine correlations between a set of thermographs generated by a thermal simulation of modeled structural elements with defects, and parameters of the modeled structural elements. A computer system communicatively coupled to the training system and the inspection apparatus, is adapted to receive thermographs received from the inspection apparatus and to detect quantitative parameters of defects in the structure using the correlations obtained from the training system.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/629826
UR - https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180299392A1/en
M3 - Patent
M1 - US20180299392A1
ER -