Abstract
This paper presents the non-destructive testing of brazed joints between the cooling tube and the heat sink by infrared (IR) thermography, which is becoming a useful and recognised technique to evaluate the quality of joints. A sensitive IR camera generates an image of the surface based on the temperature of each point on the surface and sufficient to evaluate the overall quality of the thermal contact of brazed joints. In steady state superconducting Tokamak (SST-1), the plasma facing components (PFC) are actively cooled during plasma operation. The cooling tubes are brazed on the heat sink. The IR image is used to visualize the heat transfer between the cooling tube and the heat sink, which enables to identify the significant faults in thermal contact. Three-dimensional (3D) thermal finite element (FE) analyses have been performed to simulate the brazing defects. The experimental observations obtained from IR thermography have confirmed the FE simulations. Additional non-destructive investigations such as X-ray images of the test section also have confirmed the experimental observations.
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