SLIDE 7 Airworthiness
Designed and tested for all inspection environments
EMI shielded: SMART Layer are efficiently shielded for
electromagnetic interference.
MIL-Std testing
- ! Salt Fog & Humidity Tests
- ! (MIL-STD-810F section 509.4)
- ! (MIL-STD-810F section 507.4)
- ! Successfully tested as per MIL-STD-810G to satisfy the Flight
Test and Fielding Demonstration Airworthiness Requirement (AWR) requirements
!! High Temperature Storage Test !! Low Temperature/Low Pressure (Altitude) Storage Test !! Temperature/Altitude/Humidity Test !! Blowing Dust Test !! Blowing Rain Test !! Blowing Sand Test !! Dynamic Tests including Vibration, Functional Shocks and Crash Hazard Shocks
Operational Temperature
- ! Continuous operating temperature: -67 °F ~250 °F
- ! Short time high temperature exposure: ~390 °F
- ! Low temperature survivability: -321 °F
Flight Tests (Completed and Ongoing)
- ! F-16 – flight tested for 18 month on bonded repair on aircraft
- ! OH-58C, OH-58D - flight testing completed
- ! Airbus A340, A350 - flight testing ongoing
- ! Embraer – flight testing ongoing
Front Front
14 rivets to be monitored (hot spot area 2)
Left side of tailboom Right side of tailboom
14 rivets to be monitored (hot spot area 1) Data collection and analysis hardware Data collection port to connect to the SMART Layers
SMART Layer sensors
SMART Layer Strip with 14 actuators and 14 sensors Installed SMART Layers with coating Installed SMART Layers without coating !
- ! UH-60 Black Hawk
- ! Complete SHM system installed on Black Hawk aircraft at
NASA Ames
- ! Sensors have been flying for >72 months for 900 flight hours
- ! Successfully undergone survivability and functionality test of
sensors through sand blast testing in brown-out conditions at Yuma Proving Ground. Data was taken continually to check sensor signals
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