The invention discloses a three-dimensional
eddy current thermal imaging detection device and method for fatigue cracks on the surface of a steel rail, and belongs to the field of material science, and the device comprises hardware equipment which comprises a detection motion platform, a mechanical arm device, a central control box, a three-dimensional
eddy current thermal imaging module and an
induction heating module; the mechanical arm device and the central control box are mounted at the top end of the detection motion platform, and the three-dimensional
eddy current thermal imaging module and the
induction heating module are both mounted at the output end of the mechanical arm device; the
induction heating module is used for carrying out induction heating on the surface of a steel rail test block; the three-dimensional eddy current thermal imaging module is used for simultaneously acquiring
infrared thermal image information and
structured light three-dimensional information of the surface of the steel rail; and the
software analysis
system runs in the
data acquisition and analysis module and is used for
processing infrared thermal image information and
structured light three-dimensional information through a three-dimensional eddy current thermal imaging crack detection
algorithm and outputting a detection result.
Infrared and
structured light imaging results are fused, the detection precision is high, and the method is suitable for steel rail early-stage fatigue defect detection.