In-situ airframe sensors have long been considered a potential solution for structural health monitoring that could change the design, certification, operation, and maintenance paradigms of flight vehicles. In this approach, large networks of sensors covering the entire, or most of, an airframe throughout its operational lifetime would support real-time decisions on airworthiness and obviate the need to overbuild components or perform multiple cycles of structural qualification testing and inspections. This concept would go beyond the current practice of placing select sensors in strategic locations or relying on such sensors only during airframe qualification flights and inspections. For vehicles in the emerging urban air mobility space, reducing weight associated with overbuilds and shortening down-time associated with inspections are critical for improving safety and affordability. In practice, the wide-scale use of in-situ sensors as primary assurance for structural health has not been demonstrated to be feasible or the best solution. A sensor integration testbed was developed as a platform to evaluate the potential of multiple sensor types to enable decision making on airworthiness. We report on the initial runs of this testbed with multiple sensors attached to a common test article. Metal foil strain gauges, eddy current, fiber optic, guided wave (acoustic emission and ultrasonic) and carbon nanotube roving sensors were affixed to the test article. Baseline as well as post damage initiation and fatiguing data are presented and discussed. Despite the relative simplicity of the test article, the interpretation of the as-captured test data was generally not conclusive or did not have wide enough coverage. This result emphasizes the challenges and current limitations both in testing and the practical broad application of embedded sensors as the determinative elements in critical decision making on wide-scale structural health.


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    Titel :

    Enhancing In-Flight Structural Health Monitoring of Vertical Lift Vehicles Operating in an Urban Environment


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    Transformative Vertical Flight (TVF) 6th Decennial VFS Aeromechanics Specialists' Conference ; 2024 ; Santa Clara, CA, US


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    Sonstige


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    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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