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Safety has always been the most important thing in the aircraft industry. Every aircraft has to be inspected and repaired if there are any defects. The current existing method of aircraft inspection requires heavy machinery, and it is time-consuming. This project is to make an alternative method for inspectors to do a visual inspection that is more efficient than the existing method. For the project, Intel Realsense Depth Camera D435i was used for its depth capability and DJI Phantom 4 Pro V2 as the drone for the new system. Tests were done to analyse the device's accuracy to see if it can be used in an aircraft inspection. The tests involve depth analysis system test, the wireless range for system test, and drone camera movement test with a depth camera. Depth analysis system test has few tests such as maximum distance test, horizontal angled camera test and vertical angle camera test. For the maximum distance test, the distance obtained was 130 cm. The result obtained for the horizontal angle test is that the camera can get accurate data from 60° to 90° horizontally, measured from the aluminium plane surface. In contrast, it can get accurate data from 80° to 90° from the plane surface for the vertical angle test. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anti-bullet vests are the key components of anti-projectile protection armour which are required to absorb high energy impact. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of the development of an inspection system to determine the reliability of these sintered parts. The paper presents some of the research into the non-destructive testing applications implemented in the newly designed in-line automated conveyor system, designed to ensure the reliability of these critical components. The physical size of the ceramic plates (40 × 30 x 5cm) and the plate profile raises numerous challenges, and the system combines the use of a high-resolution laser 3D profiler and a high- resolution 2D x-ray imagining technique, using dedicated image processing algorithms on a fully automated conveyor system. The processed laser and x-ray test data is used to determine important parameters, such as: 3D dimension, thickness, density mapping and defect sizing and positioning to achieve high levels of sensitivity and dimensional resolution (circa 60 microns). When integrated into high speed mass production, the rapid collection of integrity data adds significantly to maintaining the highest levels of quality control, and the conveyor process will be capable of high-speed high sensitivity production. The system measured plate parameters which are compared with acceptance values, and the rapid sample scanning, data acquisition and total accept/reject process takes around 30 seconds. Studies are underway to closely determine the exact material density, by further processing the correlation of laser thickness values and x-ray data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article contains information on the development of methods and means of testing of full-scale aircraft structures, the main methodological approaches in the experimental studies of the strength of the aircraft units, technical means, equipment and systems of test stands, methods and equipment of non-destructive testing in the Department of strength of the Siberian research Institute of aviation. The features of computational methods and experimental studies of aircraft units made from composite are considered, the results of static and service life tests are presented, the influence of impact external and climatic factors on the structure and strength is estimated, the sequence and criteria of destruction of composite structures are investigated, the influence of manufacturing technology and initial defects on the static strength and fatigue life of samples and assemblies is evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Increasing the inspection quality and speed is essential in manufacturing applications, especially for large structures (e.g. modern aircrafts). Traditional ultrasonic manual scanning can be comprehensive, but lacks repeatability and is time-consuming. Several robotic non-destructive testing systems have been developed in recent years. Although high inspection rates have been achieved by the use of robotic arms, there is the need to furtherly increase the inspection speeds, to cope with the current industrial demands. For systems delivering robotic ultrasonic inspection through phased array probes, the current bottleneck is given by the time required to electrically fire all elements of the phased array probes, which limits the maximum scanning speed of the automated manipulators. This paper discusses the development of a multi-aperture beamforming method to focus the beam with multiple focusing points at a single firing. This work investigates this approach and the influence of different aperture excitations on the data quality. Experiments have been carried out using a 5MHz 32-element phased array probe manipulated by a KUKA robot. The results highlight the possibility to significantly improve the speed of automated inspection compared to linear beamforming, without compromising the inspection quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]