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Quantitative Infrared Thermographic Assessment of Hand Cooling Dynamics During Controlled Contact with Metal Plates
Pengfei Zhu, Hai Zhang, Stefano Sfarra +4
This study investigates the spatiotemporal thermal response of human hands during controlled contact cooling using short wave infrared (SWIR), mid wave infrared (MWIR), and long wa…
Field-material coupled neural network: A novel prior-free and data-free inverse problem solver for extracting complex dielectric constant in terahertz band
Pengfei Zhu, Stefano Sfarra, Elena Pivarciova +2
Accurate extraction of the complex dielectric constant in the terahertz (THz) band is essential for material characterization and non-destructive evaluation yet remains challenging…
Thermal diffusivity measurement based on evaporative cryocooling excitation: Theory and experiments
Pengfei Zhu, Hai Zhang, Stefano Sfarra +4
Photo-thermal methods for measuring thermal diffusivity inherently pose an ill-posed inverse problem, affected by factors such as sample thickness, heating or cooling time, and exc…
Thermal diffusivity characterization of impacted composites using evaporative cryocooling excitation and inverse physics-informed neural networks
Pengfei Zhu, Hai Zhang, Stefano Sfarra +5
The thermal diffusivity measurement of impacted composites using pulsed methods presents an ill-posed inverse problem influenced by multiple factors such as sample thickness, cooli…
A novel IR-SRGAN assisted super-resolution evaluation of photothermal coherence tomography for impact damage in toughened thermoplastic CFRP laminates under room temperature and low temperature
Pengfei Zhu, Hai Zhang, Stefano Sfarra +4
Evaluating impact-induced damage in composite materials under varying temperature conditions is essential for ensuring structural integrity and reliable performance in aerospace, p…