The United States general aviation fleet is aging with aircraft manufactured 35–39 years ago representing the most prevalent group. Since older aircraft are more prone to airframe corrosion, fatigue, and brittle electrical wiring, the present study was undertaken to determine whether malfunction-related accidents for general aviation aircraft manufactured between 1970 and 1984 were elevated rel...

We describe the INMA project, part of which aims to use AI techniques to predict and correct shape deformation in the manufacture of titanium parts using in the aircraft industry.

Since 1980 the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has been involved in the design and manufacture of eleven aircraft, manned and unmanned. Recently the focus has been on light unmanned research platforms to assist a number of tertiary academic institutes with research into UAS related technologies. While there is a relatively strong focus on the control and navigation aspects...

Industry 4.0 calls for validated simulations for rapid customization and through-life designs. Wind tunnel experiments are widely used in validating flow-field simulations for aircraft design and manufacture. In this paper, we develop testing for simulating the NACA0015 model wings in various shapes and Angles of Attacks (AoA) through an anatomy wind tunnel. Particle traces are recorded during ...

Impact, which may occur during manufacture, service or maintenance, is one of the major concerns to be monitored throughout the lifetime of aircraft composite structures. Aiming at monitoring impacts online while minimizing the weight added to the aircraft to meet the strict limitations of aerospace engineering, this paper puts forward a new digital wireless network based on miniaturized wirele...

The ability to accurately determine the amount of structural life that has been consumed in military aircraft can be compromised by the inability to be consistent in the manufacture and installation of strain sensors and general aircraft-to-aircraft variations in the structures themselves. The variations must be accounted for in order to be able to make correct decisions regarding the ability t...

Laboratory experiments measuring the charge transferred when ice crystals collide with various metal targets have shown that the primary influence on the magnitude and sign of the charging is the work function of the metal. The magnitude of the charging of two alloys used for aircraft manufacture varied by a factor of two. Further experiments are needed to characterise the charging of composite...

Manufacturing of aero-engine components has been improvised over the years, commensurate with technological developments in the aeronautics sector. Compressor blade plays a vital role in an aircraft engine and flaws in its production can have adverse impacts on the performance of an aero engine. Despite technological advancements, many defects arise in these single crystal blades, which are man...