Pipelines play an important role in the national/international transportation of natural gas,
petroleum products, and other energy resources. Pipelines are set up in different …

Infrared thermography uses the temperature-imaging capability of modern thermal cameras
to characterize materials and detect flaws. An energy source—whether a pulse of light from …

Eddy current pulsed thermography (ECPT) is an emerging nondestructive testing and
evaluation (NDT&E) technique and has been applied for a wide range of conductive …

With the development and operation of high speed trains, condition based maintenance
becomes an important approach for the improvement of reliability and safety of rail …

In the last few years, induction thermography has been established as a non-destructive
testing method for localizing surface cracks in metals. The sample to be inspected is heated …

Eddy-current induced thermography (induction thermography, hereon referred to as
eddytherm) is an active thermographic method which is capable of rapid and non-contacting …

Active thermography is a nowadays widely used NDT method making use of thermal
material properties for defect detection. Basically, the sample is heated and the resulting …

A survey on theory, characteristic quantities and the experimental technique of induction
thermography is given. Induction thermography is used for surface defect detection in forged …

Rail tread oblique crack, initiated by rolling contact fatigue (RCF) damage, is one of the most
significant phenomena and has serious influence on rail industry. Electromagnetic non …

Reciprocating impact load leads to plastic deformation on the surface of the kinematic
chains in an aircraft brake system. As a result, this causes fatigue and various complex …