Pulse-compression laser thermography using a modified Barker code: enhanced detection of subsurface defects

N. W. Pech-May; A. Paul; M. Ziegler

doi:10.1117/12.2586078

12 April 2021 Pulse-compression laser thermography using a modified Barker code: enhanced detection of subsurface defects

N. W. Pech-May, A. Paul, M. Ziegler

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Proceedings Volume 11743, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XLIII; 117430J (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2586078
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2021, Online Only

Abstract

Pulse-compression thermography is an emerging technique that has shown versatility by combination of pulsed and lock-in thermography. Accordingly, several aspects of this technique are still unexplored, and some others not fully developed yet. Barker codes were widely used in radar applications due to their simplicity and their optimum autocorrelation function. Nevertheless, applications were limited by the amplitude of the sidelobes present in the autocorrelation function and therefore, several filters have been developed which aim to reduce the sidelobes. However, the filters usually depend on empirical parameters which must be determined for each application. A better alternative would improve the applicability of the Barker codes. In this work, we further develop the pulse-compression thermography technique by introducing a 13-bit modified Barker code (mBC): This allows to drastically reduce the sidelobes characteristic of the 13-bit Barker code (BC). Consequently, the thermographic impulse response, obtained by cross-correlation, is almost free of such sidelobes. Deeper defects become easier to detect in comparison with using a 13-bit Barker code. Numerical simulations using the finite element method are used for comparison and experimental measurements are performed in a sample of steel grade St 37 with machined notches of three different depths: 2 mm, 4 mm and 6 mm.

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N. W. Pech-May, A. Paul, and M. Ziegler "Pulse-compression laser thermography using a modified Barker code: enhanced detection of subsurface defects", Proc. SPIE 11743, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XLIII, 117430J (12 April 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2586078

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