Successes and challenges in non-destructive testing of aircraft composite structures
Successes and challenges in non-destructive testing of aircraft composite structures
Composite materials are increasingly used in the aerospace industry. To fully realise the weight saving potential along with superior mechanical properties that composites offer in safety critical applications, reliable Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) methods are required to prevent catastrophic failures.This paper will review the state of the art in the field and point to highlight the success and challenges that different NDT methods are faced to evaluate the integrity of critical aerospace composites.The focus will be on advanced certificated NDT methods for damage detection and characterization in composite laminates for use in the aircraft primary and secondary structures.
Acoustic emission, Aircraft composite structures, Eddy Current Testing, Infra-Red Thermography, Laser Shearography, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), Ultrasonic testing, X-ray radiography and tomography
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Towsyfyan, Hossein
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Biguri, Ander
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Boardman, Richard
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Blumensath, Thomas
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1 March 2020
Towsyfyan, Hossein
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Biguri, Ander
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Boardman, Richard
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Blumensath, Thomas
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Towsyfyan, Hossein, Biguri, Ander, Boardman, Richard and Blumensath, Thomas
(2020)
Successes and challenges in non-destructive testing of aircraft composite structures.
Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 33 (3), .
(doi:10.1016/j.cja.2019.09.017).
Abstract
Composite materials are increasingly used in the aerospace industry. To fully realise the weight saving potential along with superior mechanical properties that composites offer in safety critical applications, reliable Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) methods are required to prevent catastrophic failures.This paper will review the state of the art in the field and point to highlight the success and challenges that different NDT methods are faced to evaluate the integrity of critical aerospace composites.The focus will be on advanced certificated NDT methods for damage detection and characterization in composite laminates for use in the aircraft primary and secondary structures.
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Accepted/In Press date: 26 September 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 9 October 2019
Published date: 1 March 2020
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the Titan Xp GPU used for this research. This research was supported by EPSRC grant EP/R002495/1 and the European Metrology Research Programme through grant 17IND08 .
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Acoustic emission, Aircraft composite structures, Eddy Current Testing, Infra-Red Thermography, Laser Shearography, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), Ultrasonic testing, X-ray radiography and tomography
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ISSN: 1000-9361
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