PROGRESS ON DEVELOPING SONIC INFRARED IMAGING FOR DEFECT DETECTION IN COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

Journal Article · Mon Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3362438· OSTI ID:21371034

Xiaoyan, Han; Qi, He; Wei, Li ^[1]; Newaz, Golam; Favro, Lawrence D ^[2]; Thomas, Robert L ^[3]

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1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing Research Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 (United States)
2. Institute for Manufacturing Research Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 (United States)
3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Manufacturing Research Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 (United States)

At last year's QNDE conference, we presented our development of Sonic IR imaging technology in metal structures, with results from both experimental studies and theoretical computing. In the latest aircraft designs, such as the B787 from Boeing, composites have become the major materials in structures such as the fuselage and wings. This is in contrast to composites' use only in auxiliary components such as flaps and spoilers in the past. With today's advanced technology of fabrication, it is expected the new materials can be put in use in even more aircraft structures due to its light weight and high strength (high strength-to-weight ratio), high specific stiffness, tailorability of properties, design flexibility etc. Especially, with increases in fuel cost, reducing the aircraft's body weight becomes more and more appealing. In this presentation, we describe the progress on our development of Sonic IR imaging for aircraft composite structures. In particular, we describe the some unexpected results discovered while modeling delaminations. These results were later experimentally verified with an engineered delamination.

• OSTI ID: 21371034
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1211, Issue 1; Conference: Review of progress in quantitative nondestructive evaluation, Kingston, RI (United States), 26-31 Jul 2009; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3362438; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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