High-Speed Thermography

Special components provide high frame rate of thermal cameras

Fast thermal camera systems with a frame rate ranging up to some kHz open thermography doors to new applications. The thermal behaviour of high speed processes can be monitored and analyzed. An example is the optimization of airbags as their the heat distribution during the explosion can well be analysed.

High-speed thermography with frame rates of more than 10 kHz are based on special detectors and acquisition units. Especially their ability to acquire and read out data in parallel provides thermographic measurements precisely in a millisecond range. Those detectors are so-called snap-shot detectors which are integrated by InfraTec in their ImageIR ^® infrared camera series.

Flexible software for fast acquisition and analysis of thermographic data

Detector and read-out unit of the thermal camera are one part to be well compatible. The second part is the communication of the thermal camera and the computer by which the infrared camera will be controlled and temperature data will be acquired. InfraTec provides flexible and highly available solutions which cater for the most different customer needs. The acquisition and analysis software IRBIS ^® 3 is well made for handling high-speed thermography and the analysis of large amounts of data.

Besides its flexible standard solutions for high-speed thermography InfraTec also offers special solutions for the thermal analysis of fast turning objects. Using the software IRBIS ^® rotate tests of brake disks or tires can be thermally analyzed.