Raw data to accompany submitted manuscript: 

Towards automated tracking of initiation and propagation of cracks in aluminium alloy coupons using thermoelastic stress analysis

Middleton C. A.1*, Gaio, A.1,a , Greene, R. J.2, and Patterson, E. A.1
1School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, The Quadrangle, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L69 3GH, U.K.
2Strain Solutions Ltd, Dunston Innovation Centre, Dunston Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S41 8NG, U.K.
aNow at: Additive Manufacturing Technologies Ltd, Alison Business Centre, 39/40 Alison Crescent, Sheffield, S2 1AS, U.K.

Submitted to Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation (Springer). Submission Date June 2018.


If using this data, authors are asked to cite both this data and the Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation manuscript.



Folder headings correspond to specimens as referenced in that paper, file names are the number of load cycles at which the data set was collected.
Raw data in .txt files is Thermoelastic Stress Analysis data as output from a DeltaTherm 1780 system (Stress Photonics, Madison, WI).
Data is formatted as 256 (h) x 320 (w) pixel matrix, each datapoint corresponds to a pixel measurement of TSA signal magnitude.

Data collected as part of the The INSTRUCTIVE project (funded by the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020, Clean Sky 2,
project number 686777), project duration: January 2016-December 2018.