Aircraft Rotor Surface Coating Qualification Testing Aircraft Rotor Surface Coating

Abstract

Due to the harsh environment and operating conditions of military aircraft rotor blades, the maintenance costs are extensive. Currently the Department of Defense "DoD" is interested in pursuing a new coating that could be applied to various helicopter rotor blades that would increase the life over the current method. The Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center "AMRDEC" located at Redstone Arsenal, AL selected the NCDMM to coordinate the initial effort to qualify a new aircraft rotor blade coating for AMRDEC's further consideration. The benefit to the DoD would be reduced maintenance costs and potentially safer aircraft operations. This test is only an initial qualification and further qualification and testing will be required before any field applications are tested. The objective of this initiative was to perform particle and rain erosion tests on coated samples from several coating suppliers along side control specimens coated with the current Poly Tape method for DoD aircraft rotor blades. The results from the coated test samples will be compared to those from the control specimens.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2006
Accession Number
ADA481802

Entities

Organizations

  • National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Body Weight
  • Coatings
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Erosion
  • Helicopter Rotors
  • Low Temperature
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Materials
  • Military Aircraft
  • Particle Size
  • Particles
  • Qualifications
  • Rain Erosion
  • Test Facilities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Surface Coatings Technology.