Operations & Safety

2008 NDT Forum Presentations

TUESDAY , 23-SEPT-2008

 

9:10 am                       KEYNOTE ADDRESS

                                   Steve Lariviere , Boeing, Senior Manager, M&PT Composites/NDI
THIS PRESENTATION NOT AVAILABLE

 

9:45 am                       SAE Committee K report

                                   Bob Stevens – Committee K Network Chair United Airlines

10:00 am                     State of the FAA – AFS-300, NDT, and AD Compliance
Russell (Rusty) Jones – FAA National Research Specialist

 

11:00 am                     Comparative Assessment of Probability of Detection studies for FPI and MPI at Delta

                                   David Piotrowski, Delta Air Lines Technical Operations

                                  

11:30 am                     Formation of the National Aerospace NDT Board of Australia
Colin Hockings – Quality Manager NDT, Composites and Calibration, Qantas Airways

                                  

1:00 pm                       ROLL CALL” –
Air Carrier, FAA, Industry Survey Form

 

2:00 pm                       737 and 777 Thrust Reverser Inspections

                                   John Linn, Dave Messner and John DeBoo – The Boeing Company

                                   THIS PRESENTATION NOT AVAILABLE

 

2:30 pm                       Increased Inspection Productivity through advances in Remote Visual Inspection (RVI) 

                                   Joe Lopez, Bradford Morse, Christine Murner – GE Inspection Technologies Ltd.

 

3:30 pm                       Scribe Mark Inspection Program on Airbus Fleet

                                   Alain Tisseiner – Airbus

 

4:00 pm                       Phased Array Inspections at Lap Joints

                                   Jeff Thompson, Dave Messner, John Bangsund and Tim Peraza –The Boeing Company

                                   THIS PRESENTATION NOT AVAILABLE

 

4:30 pm                       Fluorescent Penetrant Inspection: Engineering Studies Update
Lisa Brasche – CASR Program Manager, Iowa State University

 

5:00 pm                       Second Generation Computer Aided Tap Tester – Developments and Testing
Dan Bernard, Cory Foreman, and David Hsu – Iowa State University

 

WEDNESDAY, 24-SEPT-2008    

 

8:30 am                       FAA/ATA “Better Way” AWARD PRESENTATION
Paul Swindell - FAA’s Technical Center, Mark Lopez – ATA

 

9:00 am                       Ultrasonic Phased Array Instrument for Composite Inspection During Maintenance and Manufacturing

                                   Andre Lamarre, Jason Habermehl – Olympus NDT

 

9:30 am                       Review of Progress of Bond Testing Technology

                                   Andre Lamarre, Aaron Greenbank – Olympus NDT

 

10:00 am                     In-Service Issues with Aircraft Cabin Windows

                                   David Piotrowski, Delta Air Lines Technical Operations

 

11:00 am                     Line Maintenance Solutions for Composite Repair and Damage Evaluation

                                   Christine Murner, Stephan Frank, Andrea Koetz – GE Inspection Technologies Ltd.

 

11:30 am                     In-Service Inspection of the 787
Quincy Howard, Jeff Kollgaard – The Boeing Company

                                   THIS PRESENTATION NOT AVAILABLE

 

12:00 pm                     High-Energy Wide Area Impact Causing Significant Damage to Composite Airframe Structures
Howard Hall – FAA Seattle Aircraft Certification Office

 

1:30 pm                       Features of 3D Ultrasonic Inspection Equipment Matrixeye

                                   Hirokazu Karasawa, Takahiro Ikeda, Shin Matusumoto – Toshiba Corporation, Keiji Hirabayashi, Junichi Ikehara – ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS CO. LTD

 

2:00 pm                       A Pulsed EC-GMR System for NDE of Aircraft Structures
Lalita Udpa, Professor – Michigan State University

 

2:30 pm                       Identifying Defects in Composite Sandwich Panels Using a Low-Frequency Acoustic baNDIcoot Scanner
Laurence Dickinson – CSIRO Division of Material Sciences and Engineering, Jeff Kollgaard – The Boeing Company

                                   THIS PRESENTATION NOT AVAILABLE

 

3:30 pm                       Increasing Reliability of JT8D 1st Stage Turbine Blades Through the Use of Process Compensated Resonance Testing (PCRT)

                                   David Piotrowski, Delta Air Lines Technical Operations and Lem Hunter, Vibrant NDT

 

4:00 pm                       Process Compensated Resonance Testing (PCRT) of CF6-80 1st Stage Turbine Blade Brazed End Caps
David Piotrowski, Delta Air Lines Technical Operations and
Lem Hunter, Vibrant NDT

 

4:30 pm                       High Resolution, Low Cost Ultrasound Camera for In-Service Composite NDI

                                   Robert Lasser, Marvin Lasser, Ron Westernik, John Kula, David Rich Imperium, Inc.

 

5:00 pm                       Thermography for NDT / Inspection with an
emphasis on Composite Materials and Aerospace Structures

                                   Markus Tarin – President, moviMED, Irvine, CA.

 

THURSDAY, 25-SEPT-2008

 

9:00 am                       Automated Ultrasonic Inspection for Cracks in Multilayered Wing Structure of an Aircraft NOT PRESENTED
William Jappe, Masood Zaidi – The Boeing Company

 

9:30 am                       New Developments in the Eddy Current Array Technology for the Inspection of Aircraft Structures

Andre Lamarre, Benoit Lepage, Aaron Greenbank – Olympus NDT

10:30 am                     Alternative Methods to Improve the Inspection Skin-to-Substructure Bond Lines in Main Rotor Blades

Dennis Roach, Wayne DeLong – FAA Airworthiness Assurance Center (AANC) Sandia National Labs

 

11:00 am                     Move over 1940’s . . . This is 2008: The New Age of Aircraft Inspection Technology

                                   Dr. Yogesh Mehrotra and Rajeev A. Mehrotra Materials Technologies Corporation

 

11:30 am                     Phased Array UT for Landing Gear Application

                                   David Piotrowski, John Bohler, Richard Watkins, Delta Air Lines Technical Operations

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