A nondestructive examination (NDE) methodology was developed at Bell Helicopter Inc., to enhance the detection and enable the quantification of fiber waviness in thick composite materials used to manufacture flight critical components. The new method involves PC-based visualization routines using computer-aided tomography. A computer program was developed to enable the user to view, analyze and interact with the 3D representation of individual composite layers. Specialized software routines were also developed to reconstruct ply representations from the tracer images.


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    Title :

    Detection and quantification of fiber waviness in thick composite components


    Additional title:

    Nachweis und Quantifizierung der Faserwelligkeit in dicken Verbundkomponenten


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1999


    Size :

    7 Seiten


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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