An Ultrasonic F-Scan Inspection Technique for the Detection of Surface Preparation Variances in Adhesively Bonded Structures
Date
Authors
Major Professor
Advisor
Committee Member
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Authors
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Is Version Of
Versions
Series
Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
This site provides free, public access to papers presented at the annual QNDE conference between 1983 and 1999, and abstracts for papers presented at the conference since 2001.
Department
Abstract
An adhesive bond can be used to join metal to metal, metal to composite, composite to composite, metal to honeycomb, composite to foam, etc., to form a new structure. These adhesively bonded joints are being utilized in airframes to meet the general industry requirements of increased performance and decreased weight. These bonds are replacing rivets and other mechanical fasteners in load bearing situations and failure of the bond can therefore lead to failure of the component and possibly an entire structural system.