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INFRARED PHYSICS & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 6, Pages 451-467Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2005.01.001
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non-destructive testing; infrared thermography; radiative heat exchanges
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By using quantitative thermal scanning of building surface structures, it is possible to access the temperature field. For further calculation of the heat flux exchanged by these structures with the environment, one must quantify as finely as possible the temperature field on the bodies surfaces. For this purpose we have to take into account that real bodies are not black, which implies that a part of the ambient radiation received by the infrared camera detectors is reflected radiation. In this paper, we present a method to quantify the reflected flux by using an infrared mirror, which allows large surface temperature measurements by infrared thermography under near-ambient conditions with improved accuracy. In order to validate the method, an experimental study was carried out on a multi-layer wall, which simulated an insulation default. A good agreement was noticed between the thermocouple temperatures and the infrared corrected ones. Then, the method is applied to outdoor measurements. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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