Title :
Deployment of a wireless corrosion monitoring system for aircraft applications
Author :
Demo, J. ; Andrews, C. ; Friedersdorf, F. ; Morgan, A. ; Jostes, L.
Author_Institution :
Luna Innovations Inc., Charlottesville, VA, USA
Abstract :
With its extremely negative effects on critical military assets, corrosion continues to be one of the top maintenance cost drivers for the Department of Defense. As of 2010, an estimated $22.9B was required to cover the costs associated with corrosion in the DoD annually. Proper management of corrosion on high value military assets such as aircraft can significantly reduce costs associated with maintenance, component removal, and aircraft availability. This paper will discuss the design, validation, and deployment of a wireless, flight qualified corrosion monitoring system as well as analysis of data collected during field trials.
Keywords :
aircraft maintenance; condition monitoring; corrosion testing; military aircraft; DoD; aircraft applications; aircraft availability; component removal; corrosion proper management; cost reduction; department of defense; flight qualified corrosion monitoring system; high value military assets; military assets; wireless corrosion monitoring system deployment; Biomedical monitoring; Calendars; Irrigation; Materials; Military aircraft; Monitoring; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Big Sky, MT
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1812-9
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2013.6496924