Damage identification and fatigue crack inspection during the test is a key foundation for full-scale aircraft fatigue test. It is very important to determine the fatigue life and maintenance period of the aircraft structure. The paper presents a brief introduction about a practical engineering method on real-time non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of aircraft structures for full-scale fatigue test. The content covers damage identifying and fatigue crack monitoring, which is based on the acquisition data acquired simultaneity during the test. The approach of damage identifying and crack growth monitoring is proven to be suitable and practical for full scale fatigue test.

Date Published: 25 August 2009
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 7375, ICEM 2008: International Conference on Experimental Mechanics 2008, 73753M (25 August 2009); doi: 10.1117/12.839261

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7375:
ICEM 2008: International Conference on Experimental Mechanics 2008
Xiaoyuan He; Huimin Xie; YiLan Kang, Editor(s)