Nondestructive evaluation of low-velocity impact-induced damage in basalt-carbon hybrid composite laminates using eddy current-pulsed thermography

Hai Zhang; Stefano Sfarra; Ahmad Osman; Fabrizio Sarasini; Udo Netzelmann; Bernd Valeske; Nicolas P. Avdelidis; Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo; Xavier Maldague

doi:10.1117/1.OE.58.4.041602

27 October 2018 Nondestructive evaluation of low-velocity impact-induced damage in basalt-carbon hybrid composite laminates using eddy current-pulsed thermography

Hai Zhang, Stefano Sfarra, Ahmad Osman, Fabrizio Sarasini, Udo Netzelmann, Bernd Valeske, Nicolas P. Avdelidis, Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo, Xavier Maldague

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 58, Issue 4, 041602 (October 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.4.041602

Abstract

Recently, basalt-carbon hybrid composite structures have attracted increasing attention due to their better damage tolerance, if compared with carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites (CFRP). Low-velocity is considered as one of the most severe threats to composite materials as it is usually invisible and it occurs frequently in service. With this regard, nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques, especially emerging modalities, are expected to be an effective damage detection method. Eddy current-pulsed thermography (ECPT), as an emerging NDT technique, was used to evaluate the damage induced by low-velocity impact loading in a CFRP laminate, as well as in two different-structured basalt-carbon hybrid composite laminates. In addition, ultrasonic C-scan and x-ray computed tomography were performed to validate the thermographic results. Pulsed phase thermography, principal component thermography, and partial least squares thermography were used to process the thermal data and to retrieve the damage imagery. Then, a further analysis was performed on the imagery and temperature profile. As a result, it is concluded that ECPT is an effective technique for hybrid composite evaluation. The impact energy tends to create an interlaminar damage in a sandwich-like structure, while it tends to create an intralaminar damage in an intercalated stacking structure.

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Hai Zhang, Stefano Sfarra, Ahmad Osman, Fabrizio Sarasini, Udo Netzelmann, Bernd Valeske, Nicolas P. Avdelidis, Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo, and Xavier Maldague "Nondestructive evaluation of low-velocity impact-induced damage in basalt-carbon hybrid composite laminates using eddy current-pulsed thermography," Optical Engineering 58(4), 041602 (27 October 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.4.041602

Received: 12 April 2018; Accepted: 11 September 2018; Published: 27 October 2018

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