Characterization of Ancient Marquetry Using Different Non-Destructive Testing Techniques

Characterization of Ancient Marquetry Using Different Non-Destructive Testing Techniques

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Non-destructive testing of objects and structures is a valuable tool, especially in cultural heritage where the preservation of the inspected sample is of vital importance.In this paper, a decorative marquetry sample is inspected with three non-destructive here testing (NDT) techniques: air-coupled ultrasound, X-ray micro-tomography, and infrared gruvi golden lager thermography.Results from the three techniques were compared and discussed.X-ray micro-tomography presented the most detailed results.

On the other hand, infrared thermography provided interesting results with the advantage of being cheap and easy in the deployment of the NDT method.