Smart Use of Infrared Thermography for Civil Infrastructure Inspections

Infrared thermography represents an attractive solution in the field of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) by overcoming some drawbacks of the traditional surveys. However, the labor and the amount of data to be analyzed, stored, and communicated are extensive when inspections are scaled to a large network of structures. In addition, the information about the damages is usually analyzed and stored using manually-based approaches. Therefore, this study, in partnership with TORNGATS Services Techniques, aims to integrate state-of-art computational methods with the infrared thermographic technique to create a digital information model to process, store, access, and communicate the inspection data. Thus, this project aims to support more effective data communication between the inspectors, engineers, researchers, asset owners, and project managers about the structure condition, which is one of the imminent demands in Canada’s civil infrastructure inspection industry.

Faculty Supervisor:

Xavier Maldague

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Partner:

TORNGATS Technical Services Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

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