Publication detail

AIRCRAFT LEADING EDGES MINOR DAMAGES DETECTION BASED ON THERMOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF ELECTRICAL ANTI-ICING SYSTEM

KOŠTIAL, R. JANHUBA, L. HLINKA, J.

English title

AIRCRAFT LEADING EDGES MINOR DAMAGES DETECTION BASED ON THERMOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF ELECTRICAL ANTI-ICING SYSTEM

Type

conference paper

Language

en

Original abstract

Aircraft leading edge is one of the most important subjects of aircraft scheduled maintenance. Leading edge as part of the slot on transport aircraft is not critical to fatigue stress in most of the cases. However, leading edge is extremely vulnerable to the accidental damage in combination with environmental damage. Maintenance is usually provided by visual inspection before every flight. Nevertheless, development of anti-icing system based on contact electrical heating opens possibility to thermographic NDT methods usage. These methods could detect minor damages, which are visually undetectable especially in the case of composite materials. This paper describes possibility of thermographic methods (using anti-icing system) application as mean of leading edge minor damage detection.

English abstract

Aircraft leading edge is one of the most important subjects of aircraft scheduled maintenance. Leading edge as part of the slot on transport aircraft is not critical to fatigue stress in most of the cases. However, leading edge is extremely vulnerable to the accidental damage in combination with environmental damage. Maintenance is usually provided by visual inspection before every flight. Nevertheless, development of anti-icing system based on contact electrical heating opens possibility to thermographic NDT methods usage. These methods could detect minor damages, which are visually undetectable especially in the case of composite materials. This paper describes possibility of thermographic methods (using anti-icing system) application as mean of leading edge minor damage detection.

Keywords in English

airplane, leading edge, accidental damage, ant-icing, NDT, thermography.

Released

09.11.2018

ISBN

978-80-214-5696-9

Book

13th Research and Education in Aircraft Design Conference

Pages from–to

15–22

Pages count

7

BIBTEX


@inproceedings{BUT151350,
  author="Rostislav {Koštial} and Luboš {Janhuba} and Jiří {Hlinka},
  title="AIRCRAFT LEADING EDGES MINOR DAMAGES DETECTION BASED ON THERMOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF ELECTRICAL ANTI-ICING SYSTEM",
  booktitle="13th Research and Education in Aircraft Design Conference",
  year="2018",
  month="November",
  pages="15--22",
  isbn="978-80-214-5696-9"
}