The FAA`s Aging Aircraft Nondestructive Inspection Validation Center at Sandia National Laboratories: An introduction
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States). Aging Aircraft Nondestructive Inspection Validation Center
In these times of budget tightening for both government and private industry, this issue of Materials Evaluation is devoted to describing a cooperative relationship leveraging resources in the Department of Transportation`s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Energy`s Sandia National Laboratories. This relationship resulted in a facility whose purpose is to assess technologies intended to enhance the reliability and cost effectiveness of inspection in the civil aviation industry. Eight articles are presented to describe this facility and its related activities. The center, located at the Albuquerque International Airport, has as its mission assessing and -- where justified -- encouraging the transfer of emerging inspection technologies to the civil aviation industry.
- OSTI ID:
- 99215
- Journal Information:
- Materials Evaluation, Vol. 53, Issue 7; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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