• SME EM97-116
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SME EM97-116

  • A Low-Cost Digital Tap Tester For Inspection Of Composites
  • standard by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 06/01/1997
  • Publisher: SME

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Traditional approaches to damage and repair assessment on composite include both instrumented and non-instrumented methods. The instrumented methods (such as bondtesters) are expensive and require skilled operators. Non-instrumented method (coin tapping) are cheap and simple but have drawbacks: they are dependent on an individual's hearing and interpretation, subject to workplace noise, and unable to provide quantitative data. Boeing has developed a low-cost, low skill instrumented tap hammer for measuring tap impulse characteristics, which are related to the local stiffness of the structure. The tap hammer supplements the hearing of the operator with a numeric readout. This paper describes the instrumented tap hammer and outlines its theoretical basis, design, and validation program.

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