Active Thermography Inspection of Water Ingress into the Sandwich Structure of an Helicopter Blade

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICMT58149.2023.10171262" target="_blank" >10.1109/ICMT58149.2023.10171262</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Active Thermography Inspection of Water Ingress into the Sandwich Structure of an Helicopter Blade

Original language description

Water ingress into the sandwich structures of aircraft components is a relatively common issue of even modern aircraft. Considering the variety of conditions of operation of SAR helicopter systems, a combination of moisture and water ingress into the critical structures is very likely - with a rotor blade partially manufactured from the sandwich structure being the most exposed. The water ingress can lead to the degradation of mechanical properties, but also the change of mass, and, especially for rotors, balance problems. This paper presents the results of active thermography inspections of controlled water ingress into the cells of the aluminum honeycomb/aluminum face-sheets sandwich structure with external thermal stimulation via halogen lamps. The ability of the active thermography inspection to detect water ingress of selected volumes is assessed. Additional factors impacting the sensitivity of the active thermography inspection, such as the position of the rotor blade, and duration of the heating pulse, are explored as well. Furthermore, the thermal pulse generated by rapid cooling as opposed to the heating of the tested specimen was tested. The resulting thermal contrast was evaluated by a principal component analysis. Active thermography inspection proved to yield excellent results for moisture/water ingress, assuming some defined criteria are met.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20304 - Aerospace engineering

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

2023 9th International Conference on Military Technologies, ICMT 2023 - Proceedings

ISBN

979-8-3503-2568-3

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

1-6

Publisher name

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Place of publication

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Event location

Brno, Czech Republic

Event date

May 23, 2023

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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