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Understanding Infrared Thermography Reading 3

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Keywords:<br />

Principles:<br />

• temperature and<br />

• heat flow measurement as a means to predict or diagnose failure.<br />

Techniques:<br />

• contacting or<br />

• noncontacting devices,<br />

• or a combination of both.<br />

Contacting devices include:<br />

• thermometers of various types,<br />

• thermocouples,<br />

• thermopiles and<br />

• thermochromic coatings.<br />

Noncontacting devices include:<br />

• convection (heat flux) devices,<br />

• optical pyrometers,<br />

• infrared radiation thermometers,<br />

• infrared Line scanners and<br />

• infrared thermal imaging (thermographic) equipment.<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang

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