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Imaging system detects fractures in shuttle wing.(TESTING/ANALYSIS)

Advanced Materials & Processes, April, 2005

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An imaging tool that is said to have the potential to look through Space Shuttle wings and detect subtle, potentially fatal defects invisible to current nondestructive testing and imaging systems has been developed by Digitome Corp., Davidson, N.C. Called the Digitome Volumetric X-Ray Imaging System, the new inspection unit found minute cracks in the internal structure of a wing leading edge carbon-composite panel removed from the Space Shuttle Orbiter and subjected to similar conditions to those that affected the Columbia on lift-off.

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Manufacturing Industry

Imaging system detects fractures in shuttle wing.(TESTING/ANALYSIS)

Advanced Materials & Processes, April, 2005

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