APLICAÇÃO DA TERMOGRAFIA NA IDENTIFICAÇÃO DE INFILTRAÇÕES E TUBULAÇÕES PARA CONDUÇÃO DE ÁGUA FRIA E ÁGUA QUENTE EMBUTIDAS EM ALVENARIA

Abstract

The thermographic images have been conquering space in applications in different areas of Civil Engineering, among these areas can be cited: detection of water infiltrations, location of structural cracks, detection of voids and defects in construction materials, detection of structures corrosion, studies energy conservation and monitoring of hydraulic and electrical systems. The present work therefore has the objective of evaluating the use of these images in the identification of infiltrations and monitoring of pipes in residential and building installations. With this objective in mind, four visits were made, two for infiltration analysis, one for identification of cold water pipes and the other for identification of hot water pipes. From the observed results, eight images were showed, representing in a simplified way, the use of such tool for these uses. With this study, it is concluded that the use of thermographic cameras can be used to detect infiltrations and location of hot water piping embedded in walls.