Through skin sensing assessment of aircraft structures using pulsed thermography

NDT and E International

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 353-359

  Avdelidis, N P ^a,b   Almond, D P ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b IRT and Materials Consultancy   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aircraft; Aluminium; Carbon fibre reinforced plastic; Quantitative analysis; Thermography

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT CONDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES; PULSED THERMOGRAPHY; SKIN SENSING ASSESSMENT; SUBSURFACE FIXING;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 2442481829     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2003.10.009     Document Type: Article

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