Thin stone wall cladding systems used on exterior building envelopes typically consist of stone panels made of granite. There is a risk of detachment if the cement used to stack the panels is defective. There is awide range of destructive techniques to evaluate the state of the facades, but they are scarcely practical. Infrared thermography (IRT) offers a cost-effective alternative to tradition...

Infrared thermography provides a non-invasive and dynamic measure of heat. The thermal preservability effects of a salt footbath were evaluated by the infrared thermography technique. The subjects were 23 healthy college students. Feet were soaked for 10 min in a 40-42 degrees C normal footbath. Room temperature was set at 26.5-28 degrees C. At the same time on another day within 3 days of the ...

Heat stress is considered a limiting factor for sheep production. We used information from physiological characteristics linked to heat tolerance to determine whether infrared thermography temperatures were able to separate groups of animals and determine the most important variables in this differentiation. Forty-eight four-month-old male lambs from eight genetic groups were used. Physiologica...

Infrared thermography (IRT) has shown to be an important non-destructive method for the investigation of cultural heritage. More specifically, active IRT, monitoring the evolution of emitted infrared radiation at the surface of a sample with time, provides information on the structure of the artefact as well as on the thermal properties of the constituting material. The technique has been appli...

Medical infrared thermography (MIT) is used for analyzing physiological functions related to skin temperature. Technological advances have made MIT a reliable medical measurement tool. This paper provides an overview of MIT's technical requirements and usefulness in sports medicine, with a special focus on overuse and traumatic knee injuries. Case studies are used to illustrate the clinical app...

Dept.of Mechnical Design Eng., Chosun Univ., 375 Seosuk-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju, Korea, [email protected] In this study, shearography and infrared thermography were used for measuring the wall thinning defects of the nuclear power plants pipes. It is very important to measure the wall thinning defects inside the pipes, because the wall thinning defects cause damage or destruction of the pipes. T...

The number of aging nuclear power plants (NPPs) has increased recently. Accordingly, the number of operational interruptions has increased due to malfunctions of the NPPs secondary systems. These cases occur in the secondary systems of NPPs with a range of structures due to fatigue, wall-thinned defects, corrosion, etc. Of these problems, wall thinned defects occur in the pipes by the diffusion...

In veterinary medicine, as in complimentary human medical disciplines, it is often difficult to make the proper diagnosis because of factors such as changing symptoms or the lack of diagnostically recognizable symptoms. The search for answers in such situations, coupled with the patient’s inability to communicate, is often frustrating to the veterinarian and costly to the client. The result is ...

BACKGROUND Bioheat models have been proposed to predict heat distribution in multilayered biological tissues after therapeutic ultrasound (TUS) stimulation. However, evidence on its therapeutic benefit is still controversial for many clinical conditions. The aim of this study was to evaluate and to compare the TUS heating distribution on commercially available bone phantoms and in vitro femur a...