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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2012, Vol. ›› Issue (6): 1134-1146.

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Study on Pulsed Thermography for Water Ingress Detection in Composite Honeycomb Panels

GUO Xingwang1, ZHANG Feifei1, LIU Yingtao2   

  1. 1. School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China;
    2. Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, Beijing 100095, China
  • Received:2011-09-01 Revised:2011-11-29 Online:2012-06-25 Published:2012-06-26
  • Supported by:

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (50975016, 60672101);Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (2009ZD51045)

Abstract: The mechanism of pulsed thermography (PT) for water detection in aviation composite honeycomb panels is studied by numerical simulation and experiment. A new 3-D heat conduction model of water detection in honeycomb panels is presented; the relationships between information parameters and water are analyzed for three testing modes, i.e. detecting from the near-water side, detecting from the far-water side and detecting as the honeycomb panel is vertically laid. The basic laws of water detection from the near-water side are verified by a PT experiment. The results indicate that, in the three testing modes, both the maximum temperature difference and maximum contrast are non-linear functions of water height, and will increase as the increment of the water height. The detection sensitivity is the highest from the near-water side, followed by the vertically laid honeycomb panel, and the far-water side is the lowest. Both water ingress and glue have similar influence on the surface temperature. Therefore, they cannot be distinguished by the temperature difference curve or the maximum temperature difference information. The water height can be evaluated inversely by the curves of the information parameters vs water height. The results obtained can provide technical support for water detection and evaluation of aviation honeycomb structures by PT.

Key words: infrared imaging, thermography, nondestructive testing, modeling building, simulation, honeycomb structure, water ingress

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