Thermal testing of corundum ceramics: pulse heating and optimized data processing algorithms

A review of the types of defects in the production of corundum ceramic tiles and traditional methods of integrity testing of products made of this material is carried out. The integrity of tiles containing artificial defects was investigated by the method of active thermal testing using pulsed optical heating. A scheme of two-way thermal testing with software processing of the initial thermograms using the Parker method is applied. It has been established that the best results in detecting internal defects in ceramic tiles with a thickness of 10 mm during thermal stimulation using xenon lamps are obtained by the method of two-way thermal testing with the construction of thermal conductivity maps.