Thermographic detection of damaged regions in fiber-reinforced composite materials

dc.contributor.authorJones, Thomas Scotten
dc.contributor.departmentEngineering Science and Mechanicsen
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-13T20:44:14Zen
dc.date.available2015-11-13T20:44:14Zen
dc.date.issued1977en
dc.description.abstractThe applicability to composite materials of a particular NDI technique, vibrothermography, is studied. With this technique, specimens are excited with a high power, low frequency ultrasonic shaker while the specimen is monitored with an infrared camera. Once temperature patterns are developed, thermograms are photographed from the color display of the infrared camera. A three dimensional, orthotropic, finite difference heat conduction analysis is performed and written into a computer coding. After an estimate of the heat sources responsible for an experimental thermogram is made, these heat sources along with the material information is fed into the computer coding to produce an analytical temperature pattern. A comparison between the experimental and analytical thermograms may lead to further information concerning the nature of the heat sources. The computer coding is written to handle an eight ply symmetric laminate using one hundred elements per ply in the analysis. A listing of the computer coding along with a guide to its use, a sample data set, and a sample output are included in the thesis.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentix, 109 leavesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/64042en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 39841803en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1977.J658en
dc.titleThermographic detection of damaged regions in fiber-reinforced composite materialsen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineEngineering Science and Mechanicsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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