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Low-Cost Quality Control and Nondestructive Evaluation Technologies for General Aviation StructuresNASA's Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) Program has as a goal to reduce the overall cost of producing private aviation aircraft while maintaining the safety of these aircraft. In order to successfully meet this goal, it is necessary to develop nondestructive inspection techniques which will facilitate the production of the materials used in these aircraft and assure the quality necessary to maintain airworthiness. This paper will discuss a particular class of general aviation materials and several nondestructive inspection techniques that have proven effective for making these inspections. Additionally, this paper will discuss the investigation and application of other commercially available quality control techniques applicable to these structures.
Document ID
19980220161
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Cramer, K. Elliott
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Gavinsky, Bob
(Stoddard-Hamilton Aircraft, Inc. Arlington, WA United States)
Semanskee, Grant
(Stoddard-Hamilton Aircraft, Inc. Arlington, WA United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1998
Subject Category
Quality Assurance And Reliability
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.15:208456
NASA/TM-1998-208456
L-17763
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 538-07-12-01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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