Abstract
In this study, we present an extension of the virtual wave concept to enable photothermal reconstruction from temporal non-uniform pulsed thermography data. Therefore, we introduce a generalized discrete transformation kernel, which allows to account for arbitrary temporal sampling strategies. First, we show the evidence of the proposed strategy for analytical temperature signals. Moreover, we demonstrate the advantages of the strategy for simulated temperature signals, obtained from an orthotropic sample with defect interfaces at various depth positions. For experimental verification, we apply pulsed thermography in the pulse-echo configuration for a carbon fiber-reinforced polymer sample with different embedded defects. It can be shown that efficient time sampling in the virtual wave concept allows a significant reduction in the number of data points compared to uniform sampling, without compromising the quality of the reconstruction results.
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