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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Sensors Volume 2012, Article ID 408437, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/408437 Research Article Comparison of Nondestructive Testing Methods on Detection of Delaminations in Composites Liang Cheng1 and Gui Yun Tian1, 2 1 School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK 2 School of Automation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China Correspondence should be addressed to Liang Cheng, liang.cheng@ncl.ac.uk Received 3 November 2011; Accepted 31 January 2012 Academic Editor: B. P. C. Rao Copyright © 2012 L. Cheng and G. Y. Tian. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Delamination is one of the most common defects in carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) components, such as those used in aircraft and wind turbine blades. To detect delaminations, different NDT methods such as ultrasonic (UT), eddy current (EC) scanning, flash thermography, and recent developed pulsed-eddy-current-(PEC-) simulated thermography are conducted for comparison and evaluation of the new developed PEC thermography system at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China through UK-China collaboration. A PEC-stimulated thermography system is built at NUAA, extended from previous joint work between Newcastle and Bath Universities. Using these NDT systems, man-made, dedicated delaminations with varied diameters and depths are investigated and studied. Through this comparison, PEC-stumilated and flash thermography show relatively good indications of the shape of