Vibration excitation of aerospace composite materials for defect determination using optical NDT techniques (ESPI/Shearography)

This project investigates the detection of structural damage in aerospace composite materials using ESPI and/or Shearography. ESPI and shearography are both laser based digital interferometric techniques used to non-destructively identify defects in small and large structures. Vibration excitation is proposed to be used as the excitation method for the above Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) techniques. The material may or may not contain any defects, in which case the flaws are to be artificially induced.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Gerona, Leovigildo Mahon

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Gryzagoridis, Jasson ; Findeis, Dirk

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13432

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13432