Towards safe shearography inspection of thick composites with controlled surface temperature heating

Thick glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites, e.g. thickness of more than 50 mm, are increasingly used in a wide variety of industries, particularly in the marine and wind energy sectors. Defect detection and characterisation in these composites remain appealing challenges due to the material complexity and the presence of various...

Shearography non-destructive testing of thick GFRP laminates: Numerical and experimental study on defect detection with thermal loading

Thick composite materials are commonly used as load-bearing structures in marine applications. Developing a suitable and sophisticated non-destructive testing (NDT) method for thick composites is an urgent challenge to improve the safety, reliability and maintenance of these structures. Digital shearography has become an important NDT...

FEM-assisted shearography with spatially modulated heating for non-destructive testing of thick composites with deep defects

This study aims at improving shearography non-destructive testing (NDT) of deep defects in thick composites with thermal loading. Instead of conventional global heating (GH), the core idea is to apply novel spatially modulated heating (SMH) for shearography NDT. In this paper, the finite element method (FEM) has been used to advance...

Extreme shearography: Development of a high-speed shearography instrument for quantitative surface strain measurements during an impact event

Monitoring of extreme dynamic loadings on composite materials with high temporal and spatial resolution provides an important insight into the understanding of the material behaviour. Quantitative measurement of the surface strain at the first moments of the impact event may reveal the initiation of the failure mechanisms leading to damage....