The glass fiber honeycomb sandwich panel is an efficient structural configuration which has been widely used in several designs related to air, sea, and land transport systems. Terahertz time domain spectroscopy technology is an effective supplementary method for nondestructive evaluation of composites. Terahertz time domain spectroscopy imaging technology in the reflection configuration was employed to detect the defects of glass fiber honeycomb sandwich panels, such as a skin-core debonding and a foreign inclusion. It was shown in systematic experimental investigation that different defects were detected through terahertz imaging based on different parameters, which were obtained by comparing and analyzing the waveforms in time and/or frequency domain between normal and defective regions of the sample.
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