Aging Aircraft NDE: Capabilities, Challenges, and Opportunities (Preprint)

Abstract

U.S. Air Force aircraft are managed by Damage Tolerance Assessment (DTA) and Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) plays a critical role in insuring their flight safety. This paper provides an overview of current NDE capabilities for aircraft structures. The potential migration to Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) will require NDE to evolve from detection of defects to characterization of their location and size. This represents multiple significant challenges as aircraft have many material and geometry factors that complicate this analysis. This paper provides a strategy to resolve these factors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA464674

Entities

People

  • C. F. Buynak
  • E. A. Lindgren
  • G. J. Steffes
  • J. C. Aldrin
  • J. S. Knopp

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Industry
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Aircraft
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Damage
  • Damage Tolerance
  • Data Analysis
  • Detection
  • Eddy Currents
  • Frequency
  • Fuselages
  • Geometry
  • Maintenance
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Structural Components

Fields of Study

  • Business

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
  • Systems Analysis and Design