Non-destructive testing of debonding defects in thermal barrier coating system using laser infrared thermography

Bofan Liu; Hong-En Chen; Rongbang Wang; Yang Yang; Haochen Liu; Cuixiang Pei; Zhenmao Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2666643

27 January 2023 Non-destructive testing of debonding defects in thermal barrier coating system using laser infrared thermography

Bofan Liu, Hong-En Chen, Rongbang Wang, Yang Yang, Haochen Liu, Cuixiang Pei, Zhenmao Chen

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Proceedings Volume 12550, International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering (icOPEN 2022); 125501R (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2666643
Event: International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering (icOPEN 2022), 2022, ONLINE, China

Abstract

Thermal barrier coating (TBC) system is indispensable for the heavy duty gas turbines or the aero-engine blades working at high temperature. Since the interface crack is one of the crucial issues affecting the integrity of the TBC, it is necessary to inspect the debonding defects in TBC by using a non-destructive testing (NDT) technique. Laser infrared thermography (LIRT) is a high efficiency NDT tool for thin-wall structures such like the TBC, and the LIRT using a homogeneous laser beam is especially suitable for detection of the debonding defects. In this paper, the feasibility of the homogeneous LIRT is verified for NDT of the debonding detection at first through finite element numerical simulation. Second, an experimental system using the diffractive optical element and a plano-concave lens is setup to conduct LIRT measurement with a wide homogeneous square laser spot. By using TBC specimen with debonding defects fabricated using the salt dissolving method, the pulsed LIRT and lock-In LIRT are conducted to detect the artificial debonding defects in TBC test-pieces. It is proved that the pulsed LIRT is of higher efficiency and the measured thermal image can be improved through denoising processing by using algorithm such as TSR, PCA etc. It is also found that the TSR image processing method costs less and can give results of higher contrast. The experimental results show that the debonding defects of diameter larger than 3 mm can be efficiently and accurately detected with the LIRT technique.

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Bofan Liu, Hong-En Chen, Rongbang Wang, Yang Yang, Haochen Liu, Cuixiang Pei, and Zhenmao Chen "Non-destructive testing of debonding defects in thermal barrier coating system using laser infrared thermography", Proc. SPIE 12550, International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering (icOPEN 2022), 125501R (27 January 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2666643

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Image processing

Thermography

Inspection

Nondestructive evaluation

Coating

Pulsed laser operation

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