L’économie d’énergie dans le bâtiment est devenue une question préoccupante d’envergure internationale. Le secteur du bâtiment en effet, est l’un des plus énergétivores avec par exemple plus de 43% du total d’énergie produite en France, mais aussi l’un des plus polluants avec environs, 23% des émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Avec l’accroissement des ménages, et la demande par conséquent d’énergie, les problèmes ci-dessus évoqués vont décupler et devenir rapidement ingérables les années à venir, si aucune mesure n’est prise. Ainsi, pour faire face à la situation, plusieurs stratégies sont mises en œuvre aux fins de réaliser l’économie d’énergie dans le bâtiment. Il y a le volet prédiction d’énergie qui oeuvre pour l’énergie juste heure après heure ; le volet recherche et élimination de ponts thermiques, afin de réduire au minimum les déperditions d’énergie représentant environ 30% de la consommation d’énergie ; et le volet conservation d’énergie dans les parois de bâtiment pour sa réutilisation future. Notre thèse s’est penchée sur les deux derniers volets en proposant différentes méthodes de CND et des traitements appropriés permettant la mise en évidence de défauts dans les structures de bâtiment. Des approches d’estimation de matrice de transfert ont été aussi abordées, pour permettre de prévoir le comportement thermique du bâtiment soumis à une sollicitation quelconque. La grande contribution de cette thèse concerne la mise au point d’une technique de mesure de capacité de stockage in-situ. Elle est importante, car il existe quantité de logiciels proposant la composition des structures d’un bâtiment pour une capacité de stockage d’énergie donnée. Mais il n’existe aucune méthode permettant de confirmer ou d’infirmer les résultats issus de calculs artificiels. Cette thèse apporte une solution à cette situation en proposant une méthode simple, sans encombrement, facile à mettre en œuvre et offrant un résultat satisfaisant. / Energy saving in buildings has become a major international issue. Indeed, the building sector is one the most energy consuming sectors, for instance in France it consumes more than 43% of the total produced energy, and also it is one of the most polluter with around 23% of the green house gas emissions. As more and more households appear, the energy demand will increase and the above mentioned problems will be ten times more sever making them unmanageable in the upcoming years if no measure is taken. Thus, to face this situation, many strategies have been setup in order to achieve some energy saving in buildings. Among these strategies we find the energy prediction part which deals with hour by hour right energy; the research and elimination part of thermal bridges which its main objective is to reduce as much as possible the energy losses representing around 30% of the energy consumption; and the energy conservation part in wall buildings for future recycling. Our thesis focuses on the last two parts by proposing different methods of CND as well as appropriate survey treatments which allow to highlight structural failure in buildings. Transfer matrix estimation approaches have been used to predict the thermal behavior for a building that is being put under any kind of stress.The main contribution of this thesis concerns the developing of an in-situ storage capacity measuring technique. This is important since there are many softwares proposing the structural composition of a building for a given amount of energy. Nevertheless, there isn’t any method available for confirming or invalidating the results coming from artificial calculations. This thesis brings a solution to this situation by proposing a simple method, with no obstacles, easy to setup and with satisfactory results.

Les normes européennes EURO 5 / EURO 6 de réduction des émissions polluantes des véhicules automobile sont de plus en plus sévères. La boucle de recirculation des gaz d’échappement, dite boucle EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation), est une solution de dépollution à la source car elle réduit les quantités émises d’oxydes d’azote et de particules de suie. Ce contexte entraîne une utilisation plus intensive de la boucle EGR, d’où une augmentation de son encrassement. Assurer la fiabilité de cette boucle est un enjeu important pour les constructeurs automobiles. Un montage expérimental dont on contrôle les conditions opératoires a été conçu pour recréer les dépôts observés dans l'échangeur EGR d'un moteur Diesel. Il permet de déterminer les paramètres pilotant la formation et l’évolution du dépôt d'encrassement, via une mesure de sa masse, une analyse de sa composition chimique et un suivi des transferts thermiques (thermocouples, caméra infra rouge) dans l’échangeur au cours du temps. / The EURO 5 and EURO 6 European norms on the vehicle pollutant emission reduction are stricter than the previous. The Exhaust Gas Recirculation system, also called as EGR system, is a solution for the remediation at source, because it reduces the quantity of emitted nitrogen oxides and soot particles. The resulting intensive use of the EGR system increases the fouling in the involved heat exchanger. Ensuring the reliability of the EGR system is an important challenge for car manufacturers. An experimental set-up, with controlled operating conditions, has been built to recreate the deposit observed in the EGR heat-exchanger of Diesel engines. It enables to determine the parameters driving the fouling deposit formation and evolution, via a weight measurement, a chemical composition analysis and a follow-up of the thermal transfer (thermocouples, IR camera) in the heat-exchanger over the time.

To ensure the widespread adoption of metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes, a complete understanding of the interactions between process variables is necessary. The process variables of beam power, beam velocity, deposition geometry, and beam diameter have been shown in prior works to have major effects on resultant melt pool and solidification characteristics, but this list is incomplete. Without accounting for part temperatures prior to deposition, unintended outcomes may result. In the current work, Ti-6Al-4V is studied in the Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) processes to gain an in-depth understanding of how part temperature interactions with other process variables affect physical properties of the process such as melt pool size and variability, part distortion, porosity, and microstructural characteristics. This research is performed through a combination of finite element modelling, single melt track experiments, full part production, and in-situ monitoring in order to gain a full understanding of the underlying relationships between part temperature and part outcomes. In the Arcam Electron Beam Melting (EBM®) process, this knowledge is used to generate a feedback control strategy to constrain prior beta grain width to remain constant while part surface temperatures are allowed to vary. In the Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) process, deposition is investigated at elevated substrate temperatures and several findings show that unintended part temperature increases can lead to undesirable consequences while prescribed part temperature changes can increase the available processing window and allow for more uniform deposition. This work also shows that both global temperature changes due to substrate heating and local temperature changes due to the choice of scan strategy can be combined into one metric: the temperature encountered by the melt pool during deposition. A combination of destructive and non-destructive characterization methods are utilized to understand and measure the changes to the melt pool and microstructural development that are seen during deposition. The feasibility of using a commercial high speed camera as a tool for thermography is characterized and the ability to discern cooling rates and thermal gradients within and surrounding the melt pool provide validation for trends in melt pool properties generated from simulations. This work provides a greater understanding of the role of part temperature during deposition and presents methodologies to account for the changes to the melt pool and resultant part due to both prescribed and unintended temperature changes during deposition.

Dans les contacts fortement dissipatifs, la dissipation d'énergie par frottement conduit à des sollicitations thermiques très sévères qui peuvent avoir des répercussions conséquentes sur les performances, la durabilité des organes de friction, l'environnement ou la santé humaine. La connaissance des champs thermiques des surfaces de frottement est un enjeu de premier ordre. Dans le cas de mesures sans contact du rayonnement calorifique, elle s'avère difficile du fait de l'émissivité inconnue de ces surfaces, qui varie spatialement et temporellement lors du frottement. Les travaux ont concerné le développement d'une mesure de champs thermiques par thermographie bichromatique dont l'intérêt est d'accéder simultanément à la température et à l'émissivité de surface. Les difficultés résident dans le recalage spatial et temporel de deux imageurs infrarouges, la calibration en flux des caméras et la variation spectrale de l'émissivité. La technique développée a été appliquée à la mesure in situ des champs de température et d'émissivité d'un disque de frein pendant le freinage, et exploitée pour l'analyse des localisations thermiques induites par le frottement et de leurs interactions avec le circuit tribologique, tirant parti de la connaissance de l'évolution spatiale et temporelle de l'émissivité. / In highly dissipative contacts, the energy dissipated by friction leads to severe thermal loads which could have bad consequences on performances, on friction parts durability, on the environment or on human health. Therefore, knowledge of sliding surfaces thermal fields is a first-rate issue. Due to the lack of knowledge about the emissivity of those surfaces, which change both spatially and temporally during friction, measuring thermal fields is difficult. The work done concerned the development of thermal fields measurement by bispectral thermography, which allows to get simultaneously surface emissivity and temperature. The difficulties reside in the spatial and temporal images registration of two infrared cameras, in the camera flows calibration and in the spectral emissivity variation. The technique developed was applied to the in situ fields measurement of temperature and emissivity of a brake disc during braking. It was then used for analysis of thermal locations induced by friction and their interactions with the tribological circus, leveraging the knowledge of the spatial and temporal evolution of the emissivity.

La connaissance des champs de flux thermique sur les composants d’un tokamak estun élément important de la conception de ce type de machines. L’objectif de cette thèse est dedévelopper et mettre en œuvre une méthode de calcul de ces flux à partir des mesures detempérature par thermographie infrarouge. Ce travail repose sur trois objectifs qui concernentles tokamaks actuels et futurs (ITER) : mesurer un champ de température d'une paroiréfléchissante par pyrométrie photothermique (pré-étude), caractériser les propriétésthermiques des dépôts sur les surfaces des composants et développer un calcultridimensionnel et non-linéaire du flux.Une comparaison de différentes techniques de pyrométries monochromatique,bichromatique et photothermique est effectuée sur une expérience de laboratoire de mesure detempérature. Une sensibilité importante de la technique de pyrométrie photothermique auxgradients de température sur la zone observée a été mise en évidence.Les dépôts en surface des composants exposés au plasma, sans inertie thermique, sontmodélisés par des champs de résistance thermique équivalente transverse. Ce champ derésistance est déterminé, en tout point de mesure, par confrontation du champ de températurede paroi issu de la thermographie avec le résultat d’une simulation par un modèlemonodimensionnel linéaire du composant. Une information sur la répartition spatiale du dépôtà la surface d’un composant est alors obtenue.Un calcul tridimensionnel et non-linéaire du champ de flux pariétal sur un composantest développé, par une méthode d’éléments finis, à partir de maillages de composants issus deCAO. La sensibilité du flux calculé à la précision des mesures de températures est discutée.Cette méthode est appliquée à des campagnes de mesures de températurebidimensionnelles par thermographie infrarouge sur des composants du tokamak JET. Leschamps de flux sur les tuiles du divertor, la protection supérieure et les protections poloïdalesinternes et externes sont déterminés et étudiés dans les deux directions, poloïdale ettoroïdale, du tokamak. La symétrie toroïdale du flux, d’une tuile à l’autre, est établie.L’influence de la résolution spatiale des mesures sur les flux calculés est discutée, à partir decomparaisons de résultats obtenus à partir de deux systèmes de thermographie de résolutionsdifférentes. / Knowing the fields of heat fluxes on the components of a tokamak is a key element todesign these devices. The goal of this thesis is the development of a method of computation ofthose heat loads from measurements of temperature by infrared thermography. The researchwas conducted on three issues arising in current tokamaks but also future ones like ITER: themeasurement of temperature on reflecting walls, the determination of thermal properties fordeposits observed on the surface of tokamak’s components and the development of a threedimensional,non-linear computation of heat loads.A comparison of several means of pyrometry, monochromatic, bichromatic andphotothermal, is performed on an experiment of temperature measurement. We show that thismeasurement is sensitive to temperature gradients on the observed area.Layers resulting from carbon deposition by the plasma on the surface of componentsare modeled through a field of equivalent thermal resistance, without thermal inertia. Thefield of this resistance is determined, for each measurement points, from a comparison ofsurface temperature from infrared thermographs with the result of a simulation, which isbased on a mono-dimensional linear model of components. The spatial distribution of thedeposit on the component surface is obtained.Finally, a three-dimensional and non-linear computation of fields of heat fluxes, basedon a finite element method, is developed here. Exact geometries of the component, releasedfrom CAD’s design, are used. The sensitivity of the computed heat fluxes is discussedregarding the accuracy of the temperature measurements.This computation is applied to two-dimensional temperature measurements of the JETtokamak. Several components of this tokamak are modeled, such as tiles of the divertor, upperlimiter and inner and outer poloïdal limiters. The distribution of heat fluxes on the surface ofthese components is computed and studied along the two main tokamak’s directions, poloidaland toroidal. Toroidal symmetry of the heat loads from one tile to another is shown. Theinfluence of measurements spatial resolution on the calculated heat fluxes is discussed bycomparing results obtained from measurements of two systems of thermography.

The goal of this thesis is to develop an algorithm to process infrared images and achieve automatic identification of moving subjects with fever. The identification is based on two main features: the distinction between the geometry of a human face and other objects in the field of view of the camera, and the temperature of the radiating object. Infrared thermography is a remote sensing technique used to measure temperatures based on emitted infrared radiation. Applications include fever screening in major public places such as airports and hospitals. Current accepted practice of screening requires people to stay in a line and temperature measurements are carried out for one person at a time. However in the case of mass screening of moving people the accuracy of the measurements is still under investigation. An algorithm constituting of image processing to threshold objects based on the temperature, template matching and hypothesis testing is proposed to achieve automatic identification of fever subjects. The algorithm was first tested on training data to obtain a threshold value (used to discriminate between face and non face shapes) corresponding to a false detection rate of 5%, which in turn corresponds to 85% probability of detection using Neyman-Pearson criterion. By testing the algorithm on several simulated and experimental images (which reflect relevant scenarios characterizing crowded places) it is observed that it can be beneficially implemented to introduce automation in the process of detecting moving subjects with fever.

The increasing demand for polymer matrix composites (PMCs) from the airframe industry raises the issues of productivity, cost and reproducibility of manufactured PMC components. Performance reproducibility is closely related to the manufacturing technique. Resin transfer moulding (RTM) offers the advantage of flexible manufacturing of net-shape PMC components with superior repeatability starting from ready-to-impregnate dry reinforcements. An RTM apparatus was developed for manufacturing PMC plates and demonstrator components representative of actual, PMC components and PMC moulds made and used in the airframe industry. The RTM process developed in this work involved making net-shape dry carbon fibre preforms and impregnating them an epoxy resin, targeting mould applications. Thermal repeatability of different net-shape PMC components manufactured using the RTM apparatus developed in-house was investigated. Effects of bonding an outer copper plate onto the PMC material, targeting mould applications known as integrally heated copper tooling (IHCT), were explored. Heat conduction through the PMC components was studied using simulation models validated by experimental data obtained primarily by thermography. Manufactured PMC components showed good repeatability, particularly in terms of thermal behaviour. The IHCT technique was found to be well suited for mould applications. Expected advantages of thermography were materialised. Finally, the simulation models developed were in good agreement with experimental data.

Vaginismus is defined as a persistent difficulty with vaginal entry, despite a woman’s expressed wish, due to muscle tension, avoidance, and/or pain (Basson et al., 2003). The disorder is classified as a sexual dysfunction; however, there is a paucity of literature on the sexual response, sexual function, and sexual behaviour of women with vaginismus. This thesis research was designed to investigate the differential aspects of sexual health in women with lifelong vaginismus, compared to women with lifelong dyspareunia (pain with intercourse) and women with pain-free intercourse. In the first study, 45 women viewed erotic films, of which one set depicted penetration and the other did not. Physiological sexual arousal was assessed via thermography. Subjective responses to films were assessed with questionnaires. Despite significantly greater negative emotions and lower mental sexual arousal in response to erotic stimuli, women with vaginismus showed genital arousal comparable to the comparison groups. In the second study, 174 women completed an online survey. Women with vaginismus reported more sexual difficulties than the no-pain group and a restricted range of lifetime sexual behaviours and lower frequency of intercourse attempts/experiences than the comparison groups. Women with vaginismus and dyspareunia reported more anxiety during sexual activity and a restricted sexual behaviour repertoire in the previous year and month compared to the no-pain group. Women with vaginismus endorsed more negative cognitions related to penetration, specifically concerns about losing control of their body and the situation. The findings suggest that sexual function difficulties and restricted behavioural repertoire may be associated with negative emotions and maladaptive cognitions. Women with vaginismus may avoid encounters that could lead to intercourse. Alternatively, the negative response to sexual stimuli may be indicative of a more global negative response to sexuality beyond intercourse. The negative penetration-related cognitions, negative responses to sexual stimuli, anxiety during sexual activity, and reduced range and frequency of sexual behaviours of women with vaginismus provide support for the Fear-Avoidance Model of Vaginismus. The impairment in sexual functioning supports the need to move beyond the singular treatment focus of making intercourse possible to an approach that addresses overall sexual rehabilitation.

Aerospace structural components made from polymer matrix composites (PMCs) offer numerous advantages. Their high stiffness and high strength combined with low densities enable lower fuel consumption coupled with higher payloads. As a result, PMCs provide an important economic advantage over typical metallic airframes. Textile reinforcements for PMCs are made by assembling reinforcement fibres, typically carbon. Then, the textile reinforcements are typically cut into smaller pieces, stacked, draped and assembled into a dry assembly called a preform, the shape of which generally approaches that of the PMC part to be made. This manufacturing process is labour intensive and expensive. Novel thick, net-shape, drapable, high vf textile reinforcements used toward manufacturing aerospace PMCs are being developed at the University of Ottawa. The technology enables the manufacturing of flat, drapable multilayered near net-shape preforms. The bending and in-plane shear behaviours of such novel thick reinforcement textiles was investigated to understand and define the behaviour of such thick fabric reinforcements when formed into required shapes. A bending apparatus was developed for investigating the bending behaviour of these novel thick reinforcement fabrics and an articulated frame shear rig was used for investigating the in-plane shear behaviour. A non-destructive inspection method using infrared imaging was used for investigating and identifying flaws and defects in these thick, dry textile reinforcements, aiming at increasing the quality and reproducibility of the final PMC parts made from these reinforcements.

Numerical simulation is used to investigate the accuracy of a direct-contact device for measuring skin-surface temperature. A variation of thermal conductivity of the foam has greater effect on the error rather than a variation of the blood perfusion rate. For a thermal conductivity of zero, an error of 1.5 oC in temperature was identified. For foam pad conductivities of 0.03 and 0.06 W/m-oC, the errors are 0.5 and 0.15 oC. For the transient study, with k=0 W/m-oC, it takes 4,900 seconds for the temperature to reach steady state compared with k=0.03 W/m-oC and k=0.06 W/m-oC where it takes 3,000 seconds. The configuration without the foam and in presence of an air gap between the skin surface and the sensor gives the most uniform temperature profile.