Intelligent wing monitors load, structural health

摘要

Researchers at the German Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and Systems Reliability (LBF) are convinced that next-generation lightweight aircraft designs will require intelligent load-monitoring technologies to make sure that the residual fatigue life and structural health of an aircraft can be realistically detected or calculated.rn"The industry needs to maintain 100% safety despite the constant need to reduce cost," said Martin Lehmann, Team Manager Test Technology, LBF Lightweight Structures Competence Center, during the Aerospace Testing, Design, and Manufacturing show.rn"Typically, the extremely high level of aircraft safety has to be paid for with the currency of short maintenance intervals and long maintenance duration," said Lehmann.