Fromme, P;
Endrizzi, M;
Olivo, A;
(2018)
Defect imaging in composite structures.
In: Chimenti, DE and Bond, LJ, (eds.)
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AIP: Provo, UT, USA.
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Abstract
Carbon fiber laminate composites offer advantages including a good strength to weight ratio for aerospace structures. However, manufacturing imperfections and impact during the operation and servicing of the aircraft can lead to barely visible and difficult to detect damage. Incorrect ply lay-up during the manufacturing process can result in fiber misalignment or in-plane and out-of-plane waviness. Impact, such as bird strike, during the service life can lead to delamination and cracking, reducing the load carrying capacity of the structure. Both ultrasonic and X-ray techniques have a good track record for the nondestructive testing of composite structures; for the latter, phase-based approaches provide additional advantages due to their enhanced sensitivity. Bulk and guided ultrasonic waves propagating in the composite panel were employed for defect imaging. Ultrasonic immersion C-scans of a composite panel with barely visible impact damage were taken to characterize the size and shape of damage (delamination). The first antisymmetric A 0 Lamb wave mode was excited experimentally using piezoelectric transducers and measured using a laser vibrometer. X-ray phase-contrast and dark field imaging, implemented through the edge-illumination (EI) approach, were used for the detailed visualization of the damages in the composite material. The Edge-illumination approach is multi-modal and provides three representations of the sample: absorption, differential phase and dark-field. The latter is of particular interest to detect cracks and voids of dimensions that are smaller than the actual spatial resolution of the imaging system. Application examples for carbon fiber composite plates with barely visible impact damage are shown.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Defect imaging in composite structures |
| Event: | 44th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation |
| ISBN-13: | 9780735416444 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.5031599 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5031599 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Educational assessment, Birds, Ultrasonics, X-rays, Lamb waves, Dark field microscopy, Composite materials, Ultrasound, Vibrometer, Aircraft |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10048742 |
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