Fast-acquisition, robot-mounted, 3D X-ray inspection, with longitudinal failure-analysis for Digital Twins.

Adaptix已经证明，他们的医疗设备可以通过之前的ATI授权，按照所需的行业标准检查真实的航空航天部件。通过为医疗保健而建造的系统检查这些较小的部件并不适用于典型的大型航空零部件。Adaptix希望扩大其成像大型航空零部件(如机翼/门/蒙皮)的能力，同时保持所需的分辨率，即查看复合材料中的典型故障模式。在保持保真度的同时扩大规模是一个重大的创新挑战。对于航空工业来说，在制造的早期干法预制件阶段确定复合材料故障的能力仍然是一个挑战，但非常必要。通过Adaptix的新型数字层析合成技术，在干法预制件(其他方法目前无法检测的地方)进行快速采集检测，从而实现具有重大财务和环境影响的新制造方法。这将加快这种复合材料在飞机和发动机制造中的应用。利用为不同学科开发的技术，这项创新研究将在现实世界的复合材料上部署低功率、机器人安装的3D X射线检测。在此过程中，本研究还将探索对报废部件的纵向分析，以反馈到制造过程中。有了这样的数字信息，这项工作将有助于在NDE 4.0和数字双胞胎的工作。本项目创新的价值有支持或航空航天制造优质，空中客车，精神航空系统，GKN和道蒂螺旋桨(一家GE公司)。

Adaptix have proven their medical devices can inspect authentic aerospace parts to the required industry standard via a previous ATI grant. Inspecting these smaller parts via systems built for healthcare doesn't serve the typical large aerospace parts. Adaptix wants to scale-up their capability to image large aerospace parts (such as wings/doors/skins) while maintaining the required resolution of seeing typical failure modes in the composite. This scale-up while maintaining fidelity is a significant innovation challenge.The ability to determine failures in composite materials in the early, dry-preform phase of manufacture for the aero industry continues to be a challenge, but is highly desirable. Fast-acquisition inspection at dry-preform (where other methods currently can't inspect) via Adaptix' novel _Digital Tomosynthesis_ unlocks new manufacturing methods with significant financial and environmental impact. This will then hasten the desired greater incorporation of such composite material in the manufacture of aircraft and engines.Using technology developed for a different discipline, this innovative research will deploy low-power, robot-mounted, 3D X-ray inspection on real world composites. In doing so, this research will also explore longitudinal analysis of end-of-life parts, to feed back in to the manufacturing process. With such digital information, this work will contribute to work in NDE 4.0 and Digital Twins.The value of this project innovation has the backing or aerospace manufacturing primes, Airbus, Spirit AeroSystems, GKN and Dowty Propellers (a GE company).