Industry

Aerospace

Olympus products have long been used by the aerospace industry, allowing quality control, maintenance and troubleshooting tasks to be performed with the minimum downtime, while maximizing safety, efficiency and operational time.

Ultrasonic Testing

Both ultrasonic thickness gages and flaw detectors are widely used by the aerospace industry in both manufacturing and maintenance operations. Aircraft maintenance applications for ultrasonic testing include measurement of skin and windshield thickness after blending and window scratch removal operations, as well as crack detection in airframes, landing gears, and engine mounts. Flaw detection can be performed with either conventional instruments or phased array systems. Wall thickness of turbine blades can be monitored during engine maintenance, and turbine blade root and rotor cracking can also be identified. Composite panels can be inspected for delaminations at the manufacturing stage, and the extent of in-service impact damage can be qualified.

Eddy Current Testing

Eddy current technology can be employed whenever there is a requirement to detect cracking, corrosion, changes in conductivity, and even for paint thicknesses. Aerospace maintenance applications for eddy current testing include inspections of aircraft structures to identify cracking, corrosion monitoring of aircraft skins and rotary inspections of fastener holes. Eddy current array technology is now reaching the forefront of aerospace maintenance applications where array technology is replacing conventional inspections due to improvements in inspection time and data integrity. Aerospace manufacturing has also used eddy current technology for many years to inspect new components and structures prior to being assembled on the aircraft.

Remote Visual Inspection

Olympus incorporated advanced opto-digital technology into its industrial videoscope, fiberscope and borescope systems, making it possible to not only inspect turbines and other difficult-to-access areas, but also to locate, measure and monitor foreign object damage (FOD) through both borescopes and videoscopes. Partnering with engine and airframe OEMs allows Olympus Industrial to develop equipment specific to an application when standard scopes are not fully suitable. Working closely with the manufacturers also allows Olympus to offer approved engine inspection systems for many gas turbines. A number of inspections specified by engine manufacturers require the use of guide tubes to enable the inspection area to be reached, and a wide choice of both standard and engine-specific models are available.

High Speed Video

Olympus products have long been used by the aerospace industry, allowing critical R&D, quality control, maintenance and troubleshooting tasks to be performed with the minimum downtime, while maximizing safety, efficiency and operational time.

High Speed Video further complements the NDT and RVI technologies as it can be used by aircraft manufacturers to conduct various tests including the effects of stressing airframes and wing structures to breaking point, viewing impact tests such as bird-strike on windshields and bird-ingestion testing for engines. Cameras are also utilised in the evaluation of failure modes such as internal blade separation at high speed and for providing visual information for stress testing of landing gear at contact point. High speed cameras are also extensively used for wind-tunnel analysis for viewing airflows and vibrations. Furthermore, high speed cameras may be mounted on military aircraft during flight to observe projectile deployment and separation. All video data can be accurately correlated with any other data collected such as temperature, pressure etc. and subsequently replayed, synchronised together, in the powerful PC software package provided.