Real view thermography

In this paper we present a novel approach for enhancing active thermography for nondestructive testing. In order to make the evaluation of the data more intuitive a Real View setup is presented that uses a projection technique to let the inspector view and interact with the measurement results directly on the part in a very intuitive way. Moreover we present an analysis approach using a Sobel filter of the pulse-phase result data in order to investigate the detectability of flaws by induction thermography. By projecting this information we give a visual feedback to the operator for optimizing the probability of detection.