Numerical Simulation of Non-Destructive Characterization of CFRP Composite Through Frequency Modulated Thermal wave Imaging

Abstract

Non-destructive testing plays a vital role in industrial and biomedical applications. Non-stationary stimulation based active Infrared thermography is an emerging area of interest in subsurface defect detection and visualization. In present article, frequency modulated thermal wave imaging is employed on a numerical simulation to detect defects of CFRP specimen and applied various post processing techniques such as FFT phase, Pulse compression, principal component analysis and random projection transform for better defect detection. Defect Signal to noise ratios considered as merit of analysis.