Nondestructive testing of rocket engine injector panel using ultrasonic burst phase thermography

Dapeng Chen; Cunlin Zhang; Naiming Wu; Zhi Zeng; Chunfei Xing; Yue Li; Shibin Zhao; Tao Ning

doi:10.1117/12.865709

22 October 2010 Nondestructive testing of rocket engine injector panel using ultrasonic burst phase thermography

Dapeng Chen, Cunlin Zhang, Naiming Wu, Zhi Zeng, Chunfei Xing, Yue Li, Shibin Zhao, Tao Ning

Proceedings Volume 7658, 5th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Optoelectronic Materials and Devices for Detector, Imager, Display, and Energy Conversion Technology; 76585P (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.865709
Event: 5th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies, 2010, Dalian, China

Abstract

As the key parts of the liquid rocket oxyhydrogen engine, the injector panel is a kind of transpiration material, which is braided and Sintered with stainless steel wire. If some hidden delaminition defects that are difficult to detect appear in the process of Sintering and rolling, a significant safety problem would occur. In this paper, we use the Ultrasonic Burst Phase Thermography (UBP) to detect the delamination defects in the injector panel, UBP is a rapid and reliable nondestructive technique derived from Ultrasonic Lock-in Thermography(ULT). It uses a controllable, adjustable ultrasonic burst as the heat source to stimulate the sample, the defects within the material are revealed through their heat generation caused by friction, clapping and thermoelastic effect, as the resulting surface temperature distribution is observed by an infrared camera. The original thermal images sequence is processed by Fast Fourier Transformation to obtain the phase information of the defects. In the experiments of the delamination sample, the UBP realized the selective heating of delamination defects in the injector panel, and the signal to noise of phase image is higher than the original thermal image because the phase information can not be disturbed by the initial conditions (such as the reflective surface of sample). However, the result of the detection of flat bottom hole transpiration panel sample reflects that UBP is not appropriate for the detection of this kind of defects, because it is difficult to induce frictional heating of flat bottom holes. As contrast, Flash Pulse Thermography is used to detect the flat bottom holes, all of the holes of different depth and sizes can be seen distinctly. The results show that PT is more appropriate for the detection of flat bottom holes defects than UBP, therefore, it is important to select the appropriate excitation method according to different defects.

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Dapeng Chen, Cunlin Zhang, Naiming Wu, Zhi Zeng, Chunfei Xing, Yue Li, Shibin Zhao, and Tao Ning "Nondestructive testing of rocket engine injector panel using ultrasonic burst phase thermography", Proc. SPIE 7658, 5th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Optoelectronic Materials and Devices for Detector, Imager, Display, and Energy Conversion Technology, 76585P (22 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.865709

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