The rapidly increasing use of composites on commercial airplanes coupled with the potential for economic savings associated with their use in aircraft structures means that the demand for composite materials technology will continue to increase. Inspecting these composite structures is a critical element in assuring their continued airworthiness. The FAA's Airworthiness Assurance NDI Validation Center, in conjunction with the Commercial Aircraft Composite Repair Committee (CACRC), is developing a set of composite reference standards to be used in NDT equipment calibration for accomplishment of damage assessment and post-repair inspection of all commercial aircraft composites. In this program, a series of NDI tests on a matrix of composite aircraft structures and prototype reference standards were completed in order to minimize the number of standards needed to carry out composite inspections on aircraft. Two tasks, related to composite laminates and non-metallic composite honeycomb configurations, were addressed.


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    Title :

    Development of Composite Honeycomb and Solid Laminate Reference Standards to Aid Aircraft Inspections;Journal of Nondestructive Testing


    Contributors:
    L. Dorrell (author) / D. Roach (author)

    Publication date :

    1999


    Size :

    19 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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