Numerical simulation of shielding effectiveness (SE) of a perforated shielding enclosure is carried out, using the finite element method (FEM). Possibilities of model definitions and differences between 2D and 3D models are discussed. An important part of any simulation is verification of the model results-here the simulation result are verified in terms of convergence of the model in dependence on the degrees of freedom (DOF) and by measurements. The experimental method is based on measurement of electric field inside the enclosure using an electric field probe with small dimensions is described in the paper. Solution of an illustrative example of SE by FEM is shown and simulation results are verified by experiments.

Active thermography is an infrared-based technique for nondestructive testing of materials. It often uses advanced evaluation techniques based on temperature spatial and temporal changes. Results of active thermography are contrast differences, which indicate possible defects in an inspected material. These differences cannot be quantified by temperature. This contribution is focused on the active thermography results' evaluation parameters and the contrast-to-noise ratio method, which can be used for quantitative evaluation of the results. Different result interpretation procedures are introduced. The influence of a selection method for indication and reference regions and the effect of image scaling on inspection results are discussed.

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Increased temperature in humans is the symptom of many infectious diseases and it is thus an important diagnostic tool. Infrared temperature measurement methods have been developed and applied over long periods due to their advantage of non-contact and fast measurements. This study deals with a statistical evaluation of the possibilities and limitations of infrared/thermographic human temperature measurement. A short review of the use of infrared temperature measurement in medical applications is provided. Experiments and statistics-based evaluation to confirm the expected accuracy and limits of thermography-based human temperature measurement are introduced. The results presented in this study show that the standard deviation of the thermographic measurement of the eyes maximum temperature was 0.4–0.9 °C and the mean values differences from the armpit measurement were up to 0.5 °C, based on the used IR camera, even though near ideal measurement conditions and permanent blackbody correction were used. It was also shown that a certain number of outliers must be assumed in such measurements. Extended analyses including simulations of true negative/false positive, sensitivity/specificity and receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves are presented. The statistical evaluation as well as the extended analyses show that maximum eyes temperature is more relevant than a forehead temperature examination.

This paper deals with an experimental measurement and a numerical simulation of shielding effectiveness of a perforated shielding enclosure using finite element method (FEM). There are shown possibilities of model definitions, differences between 2D and 3D models are discussed. Important part of simulation is the possibility to verify the model results -the simulation result should be verified in terms of total electric energy of the model on the degrees of freedom and the simulation results could be verified by measurements. A solution of illustrative example of shielding effectiveness FEM simulation is shown and the simulation results are verified by the experimental measurement results.