Reliability Assessment at Airline Inspection Facilities. Volume 3: Results of an Eddy Current Inspection Reliability Experiment.
Abstract
The Aging Aircraft NDI Development and Demonstration Center (AANC) at Sandia National Laboratories is charged by the FAA to support technology transfer, technology assessment, and technology validation. A key task facing the center is to establish a consistent and systematic methodology to assess the reliability of inspections through field experiments. This task is divided into three major areas: reliability of eddy current lap splice inspections at transport aircraft maintenance facilities, reliability of inspection at commuter aircraft maintenance facilities, and reliability of inspection associated with visual inspection of aircraft structural parts. Volume III is the third in a series of three describing the planning, execution, and results of an eddy current inspection field experiment. The experiment was taken to nine facilities, and five inspections were performed at each facility. All inspections took place in the environment in which actual aircraft were inspected, were accomplished using the same equipment that would be used in actual aircraft inspections, and were performed by the same people who would do actual aircraft inspections. This document provides a detailed description of the results of that eddy current inspection reliability experiment (ECIRE).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA295081
Entities
People
- Donald Schurman
- Floyd Spencer
Organizations
- Sandia National Laboratories