Coded excitation for infrared non-destructive testing of carbon fiber reinforced plastics

This paper proposes a Barker coded excitation for defect detection using infrared non-destructive testing. Capability of the proposed excitation scheme is highlighted with recently introduced correlation based post processing approach and compared with the existing phase based analysis by taking the signal to noise ratio into consideration. Applicability of the proposed scheme has been experimentally validated on a carbon fiber reinforced plastic specimen containing flat bottom holes located at different depths. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3594551]