YANG Yang, CHEN Hongen, LIU Bofan, et al. Intelligent Quantitative Non-Destructive Evaluation Method for Delamination of Carbon Fiber Composite Tube with Mirror-Reflection Infrared Thermography[J]. Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2026, 60(6): 97-109.
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YANG Yang, CHEN Hongen, LIU Bofan, et al. Intelligent Quantitative Non-Destructive Evaluation Method for Delamination of Carbon Fiber Composite Tube with Mirror-Reflection Infrared Thermography[J]. Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2026, 60(6): 97-109.DOI: 10.7652/xjtuxb202606008.
Intelligent Quantitative Non-Destructive Evaluation Method for Delamination of Carbon Fiber Composite Tube with Mirror-Reflection Infrared Thermography
To address the challenges facing conventional detection methods for delamination of carbon fiber composite tubes of large deployable antennas,namely,short detection range,low efficiency,and insufficient intelligence,an intelligent quantitative evaluation method for delamination of carbon fiber composite tubes with mirror-reflection infrared thermography based on image processing and deep learning algorithms was proposed.First,the detection region was automatically identified and extracted using the Otsu algorithm,and the extracted image sequences were processed by principal component analysis to effectively suppress noise and enhance defect feature contrast.Second,a deep learning-based defect recognition and segmentation algorithm was proposed;defect regions were identified accurately and rapidly through a decision-level fusion strategy,and defect shapes were precisely segmented using a region-constrained segmentation strategy combined with a logical or aggregation algorithm.Finally,defect correction and 3D reconstruction algorithms were applied to achieve 3D visualization of the defects.Carbon fiber composite tube specimens with internal delamination were tested.The results indicated that the quantitative evaluations for defects obtained by the proposed method were in good agreement with computed tomography(CT)results:the maximum error in the identified area of each defect was 7.7%and the mean error was 5.1%,both within allowable engineering tolerances,thereby validating the accuracy and effectiveness of that method.The study is expected to provide guidance for long-range,efficient,andintelligentquantitativenon-destructiveevaluationofdeployableantennacarbonfiber composite tubes.
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