The Aging Aircraft Nondestructive Inspection (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 1 is the first document in a series of three describing the planning, execution, and results of an eddy current inspection field experiment. A generic protocol for inspection reliability experiments is defined. It contains an introduction to the currently accepted forms of data analysis and presentation (Probability of Detection and Receiver Operating Characteristic curves) and a discussion of the factors that may affect inspection reliability.


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    Title :

    Reliability Assessment at Airline Inspection Facilities. Volume 1: A Generic Protocol for Inspection Reliability Experiments


    Contributors:
    F. Spencer (author) / G. Borgonovi (author) / D. Roach (author) / D. Schurman (author) / R. Smith (author)

    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    34 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English