Retirement for Cause Inspection System Design. Volume 1. Main Text.

Abstract

A design study has been conducted to establish an engineering specification for an integrated inspection system that will be used to implement the Retirement for Cause (RFC) maintenance philosophy on gas turbine engine disks and spacers. The system specified by this study emphasizes equipment reliability, flexibility, component throughput and accountability required for 1985 overhaul facility implementation through an Air Force manufacturing technology program. NDE technology needs for far term (post 1985) overhaul implementation of optimal RFC inspections are discussed in terms of necessary research programs which should be conducted in parallel to the manufacturing technology effort. Keywords: Gas turbine engine components; Defect discrimination; Air Force overhaul centers; Turbofan engines; Nondestructive evaluation; F100 engine; Engine maintenance; Eddy current; Ultrasonic test; Fluorescent pentetrant inspection; and Automated test facility.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA167166

Entities

People

  • Amos S. Greer
  • J. E. Doherty
  • J. M. La Grotta
  • J. S. Cargill
  • R. V. Harris Jr.

Organizations

  • Pratt & Whitney

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Assembly
  • Control Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Feature Extraction
  • Gas Turbines
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Manufacturing
  • Mechanics
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing
  • Surface Properties
  • Turbines

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Software Engineering
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.