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Thermal wave techniques can be used to excite thermal gradients within the volume to be evaluated and, hence, to achieve information on the interior of the sample under test.

The opportunities of thermal waves will be considered for the particular case of embedded piezoelectrics and the evaluation of their polarization state in construction elements, e.g., adaptronic structures. The described methods for this application are based on the pyroelectric effect whereas thermal excitation is induced by laser irradiation. Fundamentals of the pyroelectric effect are given and the resulting thermal problems are analyzed. Thermal methods recording the pyroelectric response both in the frequency (laser intensity modulation method including two- and three-dimensional polarization mapping) and in the time domains (thermal pulse method including thermal pulse tomography, thermal step method, thermal square wave method) are examined. Emphasis is given to the nonuniform resolution of thermal methods providing higher resolution in the near-surface region. Experimental pitfalls are highlighted. Nondestructive evaluation of piezoelectric transducers is illustrated by examples of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) plates embedded into low-temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC), epoxy resins, thermoplastics, and die-casted aluminum.

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Suchaneck, G., Eydam, A., Gerlach, G. (2019). Thermal Wave Techniques. In: Ida, N., Meyendorf, N. (eds) Handbook of Advanced Nondestructive Evaluation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26553-7_15

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