Microwave Assisted Healing of Thermally Mendable Composites

Figure 1

Customized microwave oven that allows for controlled heating of samples with in situ thermal profile imaging. Microwave oven is manual or computer controlled and equipped with an optical pyrometer that acts as a feedback loop to provide regulation of the magnetron source and manage sample temperature. An IR camera is mounted onto a window bored into the top of the oven to allow thermal imaging of the sample under microwave exposure.