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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Gui Yun TianORCiD, Dr Bin Gao, Dr Jishan Zhang, Professor Brian Shaw, Dr Aijun Yin
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by IEEE, 2015.
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Cyclic loading 1 can lead to fatigue damage on the surface or subsurface of a gear tooth. In order to evaluate the contact fatigue damage, this paper applies eddy current pulsed thermography (ECPT) for fatigue damage characterization a different intervals of the loading cycle. The challenging task of fatigue evaluation is one of solving the qualitative microstructure state characterization before microcrack initiation. This paper proposes the thermos-optical flow entropy tracking method to trace the heat flow and characterize the degree of fatigue damage while in this status no macro-defects appears using ECPT. In addition, the thermooptical flow is mathematically modelled to yield several desirable unique properties to evaluate minor variations in the microstructure of the material during the fatigue process. The nondestructive evaluation of fatigue damage with ECPT thermooptical flow is derived. The relationship between the entropy of thermooptical flow and the degree of contact fatigue at an early stage is established. The experimental study validates that the proposed method can detect and characterize the implicit damage and that the entropy of thermooptical flow is highly correlated with fatigue cycles which has the potential to evaluate the degree of fatigue damage.
Author(s): Liu J, Ren W, Tian GY, Gao B, Wang YZ, Zhang J, Shaw B, Yin A, King-Alale NO
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: IEEE Sensors Journal
Year: 2015
Volume: 15
Issue: 8
Pages: 4409-4419
Print publication date: 01/08/2015
Online publication date: 24/03/2015
Acceptance date: 12/03/2015
Date deposited: 06/05/2015
ISSN (print): 1530-437X
ISSN (electronic): 1558-1748
Publisher: IEEE
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2015.2416394
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2416394
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