Infrared thermography standards for nondestructive testing
- National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
Although infrared thermography is a well developed technology, its applications to nondestructive testing (NDT) are only now beginning to approach maturity. The efforts of many to have infrared thermography recognized by the NDT community, as a powerful and reliable tool for the inspection of materials, structures, and assemblies, has been inhibited by the absence of recognized standards for the method. The unavailability of standard test methods, standard practices, and even a standard terminology, has undoubtedly been responsible, to some extent, for the fact that neither the American national standard for the qualification and certification of NDT personnel, nor the comparable ISO standard, include infrared thermography among the recognized NDT methods. To remedy this situation, a group of infrared and nondestructive testing professionals initiated an ASTM activity to develop consensus standards relating to thermal imaging equipment and test methods. The first project undertaken by the group was directed toward standard test methods for evaluating those performance characteristics of thermal imaging systems that are important for NDT applications. The first part of this project was a study, sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to define the performance criteria of thermal imaging systems that are important for NDT applications. This study resulted in a paper presented at Thermosense VI, in which three such criteria were identified. Through the sustained efforts of the ASTM task group, standard test methods have now been promulgated for evaluating each of these characteristics in terms meaningful to the NDT community. The three Standard Test Methods developed so far are: (1) The Minimum Detectable Temperature Difference for Thermal Imaging Systems, (2) The Minimum Resolvable Temperature Difference for Thermal Imaging Systems, and (3) The Noise Equivalent Temperature Difference of Thermal Imaging Systems.
- OSTI ID:
- 220715
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940449-; ISBN 0-8194-1549-9; TRN: IM9620%%109
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers conference on intelligent information systems, Orlando, FL (United States), 4-8 Apr 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Thermosense 16: An international conference on thermal sensing and imaging diagnostic applications; Snell, J.R. Jr. [ed.]; PB: 330 p.; Proceedings/SPIE, Volume 2245
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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