Intelligent Structural Health Monitoring of Mechanical Infrastructure using Advanced Processing of Thermographic Images

Abstract

The work presented here, is to our knowledge, the first systematic attempt in the literature in order to explore the practical and in-situ application of cold stimulation for the purpose of IR sub-surface defect detection as an alternative to heating methods. A state-of-the-art prototype mechanism is introduced in order to perform both detection (qualitative) and characterisation (quantitative) analysis of sub-surface defects.