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Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Air Force Institute of Technology

2012

Airplanes--Fuselage--Inspection

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An Enhanced Fuselage Ultrasound Inspection Approach For Ishm Purposes, Francisco Ospina Mar 2012

An Enhanced Fuselage Ultrasound Inspection Approach For Ishm Purposes, Francisco Ospina

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This effort constitutes a systems engineering approach in which the materials science, ultrasound structural health monitoring, flight and maintenance operations, and relevant aeronautical policies and programs are involved to explore the evolution and characterization of structural cracks in aircraft fuselage structures in which the loads are varying. During flight, an aircraft fuselage skin and structure are subjected to varied cyclic loads, which can cause embedded cracks and other damage features to change their characteristics due to loading effects. The current research is based in the application of finite element modeling techniques using COMSOL and PZFLEX software to characterize the behavior …