USE OF PULSE IR THERMOGRAPHY FOR DETECTION AND QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF SUBSURFACE DEFECTS IN AUSTENITIC STEEL

摘要

Pulsed IR thermography is a non-destructive method that allows detection of subsurface defects in material. In this method the surface of the tested specimen is stimulated by heat pulse and its self-cooling process is analyzed. The temperature decrease rate is different for surface over defect with comparison to that over the sound material. It is caused by difference between values of heat diffusivity of defected zone and sound one. The purpose of this work is to determine the size and depth of the defects in austenitic steel on the basis of thermal contrast analysis. Because the thermal contrast is dependent on both these parameters, two independent experimental methods of defect size and depth determination were proposed.