Eddy Current Testing and Its Role in Improving the Long Term Reliability of Aircraft
Consistently monitoring cracks for advances in their growth is important to maintain aircraft safety, and eddy current inspection can be used to achieve this.
Nondestructive testing (NDT) of aircraft is essential to the continued safety of passengers. This article looks to explore how eddy current testing (ECT) can be effectively used to help in improving the long term reliability of aircraft by the detection of defects before they become critical, exploring ECT theory, how it can be applied to aircraft and the key elements of this NDT technique that separate it from other methods.
On a day-to-day basis ECT play a vital role within any aerospace maintenance and repair organization (MRO) and as the number of planes and passengers increase as will the average aircraft age, so must the amount of NDT being carried out on aircraft across the world. The following extracts from leading worldwide authorities give a clear idea of just how important NDT in aerospace is.