The Enhancement of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) through Active Thermal Infrared Thermography to Identify Internal Piping Failure

Non-Destructive Testing or NDT is an analysis or testing to evaluate the properties of material/component/system without causing damage. In oil and gas industry, the NDT is divided into two which are conventional and nonconventional (Basrawi, et al., 2003). However, there are some problems regarding with conventional NDT which are time consuming, hazardous, complicated and most of it only detect the defects at external surface. The NDT can be enhanced through Thermal Infrared because this Nonconventional NDT can be done safely, easily, non-hazardous and less time consuming. By using infrared camera to detect an internal defect on piping, the experiment was done to enhance the NDT by using thermal infrared method in order to identify internal piping failures, to detect the defects inside a piping by using infrared camera, and to identify the temperature differences between defects and sample. This prediction or assumption is useful in order to enhance the NDT that has been used in oil and gas industry.