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

Master Thesis

2010

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Gerona, Leovigildo Mahon
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Gryzagoridis, Jasson ; Findeis, Dirk
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University of Cape Town

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Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-89).

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Mechanical Engineering

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Gerona, L. 2010. Vibration excitation of aerospace composite materials for defect determination using optical NDT techniques (ESPI/Shearography). University of Cape Town.

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