Severe flights on Glare fracture surface

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Expertise • Dismantling of aircraft structures

• Inspections conform NDI procedures

• Qualified inspectors level 2 and level 3

• Fracture surface investigation

capabilities e.g. Scanning Electron

Microscope

• Documenting large volume of

inspection data

“DEDICATED TEARDOWN INSPECTIONS”

Full-scale testing and Teardown

Crack growth curve

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NDI capabilities

• 2D and 3D C-scan facilities (conventional and phased array)• Portable ultrasonic (conventional and phased array)• Eddy current (array) inspection• Penetrant inspection• Magnetic particle inspection• Fokker Bondtester• Coating thickness • Conductivity measurements• Acoustic emission• Comparative Vacuum Monitoring• CIVA modelling software• Avizo analysis and modelling software for CT-scan data• Quantitative fractography

Track record

• TDI of complete RNLAF F16 aircraft • TDI of LHS wing of Lockheed P-3C Orion aircraft• TDI of Airbus A380 Megaliner Barrel• TDI wings of RNLAF F16 aircraft