Not knowing an awful lot about composite engineering, would a visual inspection pick up environmental damage of a composite aircraft frame? i.e. damage caused by UV, humidity etc, or would a more invasive technique such as ultrasound required? I'm thinking of 6 to 12 year inspections, not a...
Does anyone have any information or exmaple figures for wind turbine blade failure rates? I'm performing a risk assessment for siting a turbine near a gas pipeline and need some idea of failure frequency. Thanks
I'm conducting an MSG-3 Analysis on a largly composite aircraft but I'm not too sure if carbon/fibre composites suffer from a type of fretting corrosion or not.
Anyone?
