Status of thermal NDT of space shuttle materials at NASA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6205, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cramer, K Elliott ^a   Winfree, William P ^a   Hodges, Kenneth ^b   Koshti, Ajay ^b   Ryan, Daniel ^c   Reinhardt, Walter W ^d  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c United Space Alliance LLC   (United States)

^d BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Reinforced carbon carbon; Thermography

Indexed keywords

NOSE CAP; REINFORCED CARBON-CARBON (RCC); SINGLE-SIDED MEASUREMENTS; VALIDATION TESTING;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; REINFORCED PLASTICS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

SPACE SHUTTLES;

EID: 33747674913     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669684     Document Type: Conference Paper

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