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 Bread Knives 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 testing (NDT) techniques: air-coupled ultrasound, X-ray micro-tomography, and infrared thermography.Results from the three techniques were compared and discussed.X-ray micro-tomography presented the most detailed results.On the other hand, Buildable Christmas Ornament infrared thermography provided interesting results with the advantage of being cheap and easy in the deployment of the NDT method.