3D measurement technology assists aircraft material mechanics analysis and parts manufacturing

The manufacturing of aircraft materials and parts is a high-tech product in industrial manufacturing. It has the characteristics of strict appearance requirements, numerous product configurations, different materials and shapes of parts and components, complex internal structures, and dense various system pipelines and circuits.

Aircraft manufacturing relies on the quality control of key components. Whether the geometric shapes and dimensions of the components manufactured through various links meet the design standards require the use of advanced measurement and analysis methods. At the same time, measurement information can be shared throughout the manufacturing process.

In response to the needs of aircraft manufacturing, XTOP 3D non-contact 3D measurement technology adopts non-destructive testing, which can be applied to material testing, aerospace engines, component and product testing, whole machine testing, etc., to help the digital transformation of the aerospace manufacturing industry.

• Material testing
• Aircraft engine
• Parts and product testing
• Whole machine testing

Material testing

XTOP's 3D XTDIC full-field strain and deformation measurement system can analyze the mechanical properties and behavior of materials in various complex testing environments, and can be perfectly integrated into existing test benches and testing machines. Using non-contact measuring heads, it can Measure full-field 3D strain and deformation in soft and hard materials under mechanical and thermal loading. It can replace traditional extensometers and strain gauges to achieve real-time 3D surface deformation analysis.

Nowt, XTDIC has been widely used in the measurement of mechanical properties of materials and is a strain and deformation measurement solution that has been widely recognized and praised in the industry.

1. Full field strain distribution
2. stress-strain curve
3. Young's modulus
4. Poisson's ratio
5. N value & R value
6. Stretching test
7. Shear test
8. Three-point bending/four-point bending
9. stress test
10. …

Aircraft engine

The aeroengine is a highly complex and precise thermal machinery. As the heart of the aircraft, it is not only the driving force for the flight of the aircraft, but also a key factor in determining the performance of the aircraft .

Typical parts of aeroengines include blades, impellers , pipelines , etc. For each type of parts, the testing items are different.

Blade

Blades are mostly free-form surfaces, and the measurement and evaluation of their profile and related parameters are relatively complex, which has always been a difficulty in aeroengine inspection.

• Reverse engineering
• Optimize injection mold/process
• Shape and Dimensional Analysis

Pipeline/Tube

There are a large number of pipelines distributed in aeroengines, and their bending radius, length, direction, etc. are all issues that engine manufacturers need to consider.

• Bend Tube online inspection
• Bend Tube processing guidance
• Reverse bend tube measurement

Maintenance​​

Throughout the life cycle of an aerospace engine, maintenance and repair costs are cost factors that cannot be ignored. 3D optical measurement can quickly inspect parts for wear and material deposition, and achieve precise repair of parts.

Digital coordinate measurement of damaged/prepared surfaces
Verification of material deposits
Inspection of repair work

Parts and product testing

components for the aviation industry is affected by many factors, such as an increasing number of difficult-to-machine materials, complex geometries , and increasingly stringent requirements on processing processes and delivery times . How to continuously improve production efficiency while meeting these conditions is a problem faced by all aviation parts manufacturers.

• Part size measurement
• reverse engineering
• Deformation analysis of riveted parts
• Finite element verification
• Wing model deformation test
• wind tunnel experiment

Fuselage and cabin

Regardless of the size and type of aircraft, precise assembly and scientific structural design are critical to ensuring efficient aerodynamic performance and a long flight life. For the fuselage and cabin, XTOP 3D provides digital measurement solutions such as large-size measurement, dynamic deformation measurement, and overall deformation detection of wings and fuselages to achieve design optimization and process correction, reduce inspection time, and speed up the design and development of new aircraft models. manufacture.

• Airline seat deformation test
• In-flight wing deformation test
• trajectory attitude