Nondestructive Evaluation and Self-Monitoring Materials

Abstract

This report is a response to a request from DARPA for a JASON study to evaluate existing and novel approaches to condition-based maintenance. Our guidance was to avoid the area of "smart materials", which is by itself an active area of research with which DARPA is quite familiar. In addition, the JASON study was narrowed to exclude the research area devoted to developing self-healing materials, i.e., materials that not only detect a change and produce a signal when the change occurs, but which also deform or reorganize structurally at either the macroscopic or microscopic level to counteract any harmful operational effects due to such changes. Instead, the JASON study focused primarily on methods through which condition-based maintenance could be facilitated, improved, and/or enhanced.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA363256

Entities

People

  • Doug Eardley
  • Ellen Williams
  • Henry Abarbanel
  • Nate Lewis
  • Will Happer

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Configurations
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Composite Materials
  • Condition Based Maintenance
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Maintenance
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Monitoring
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
  • Systems Analysis and Design