The invention relates to an infrared thermal wave non-destructive detection method. In the prior art, the traditional flaw detection is an analog mode, and has the following disadvantages that the defect display is not intuitive, the flaw detection technology is difficult and is easily affected by the subjective and objective conditions, and the flaw detection result is not easily saved. Accordingto the present invention, with the infrared thermal wave non-destructive detection method, the size, the shape and the distribution condition of the surface defects and the internal defects (such ascracks, gas bubbles, slag inclusion and the like) of the material can be non-destructively detected and the property of the material can be detected, the hardware of the ultrasonic wave flaw detectionsystem based on an ARM platform and an FPGA subsystem is designed, the rich peripheral equipment interfaces are provided, the FPGA design of the non-coherent digital envelope demodulation, the positive and negative delay control, the hardware real-time alarm and other modules is provided and achieved, the analog front-end design of the gain-controllable operational amplification three-level cascade is provided and achieved, the index requirements on wideband, high gain, high dynamic range and high sampling frequency are met, the power supply solving scheme combining the DC/DC converter and the low-dropout (LDO) regulator is designed and achieved, the conversion efficiency of the power supply is increased, and the stability of the whole system is enhanced; and the infrared thermal wave non-destructive detection method is used for non-destructive detection.