Shearography detects the following defect types:
- Debondings
- Material delaminations
- Cracks
- Impacts, dents, barely visible impact damages (BVID’s)
- Tool drop impacts
- Failed repair areas
- Wrinkles and waves
- Material inclusions of air, water, foil and foreign material (FOD).
Shearography shows a very good ability of NDT the following materials:
- Sandwich material (CFRP top-layer- honeycomb core)
- Aluminium honeycomb material
- GRP laminates and material
- GRP/ Wood laminates
- Foamcore material
- Carbon - Nomex
- Carbon - Rohacell
- Glassfibre foam
Shearografie NDT Composite Laboratory
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Airbus NDT-Inspection Team uses Steinbichler ISISmobile 3000 Shearography System
Successful cooperation between Airbus and Steinbichler Optotechnik in applying the shearography method for the non-destructive testing of composite materialsSince 2003, Airbus uses a Steinbichler shearography system on various Airbus sites in Germany and France. The NDT inspection team has a ISISmobile 3000 in operation which covers a measurement area of nearly DIN A3 paper size and has proven a reliable tool for Airbus quality assurance. Due to the system´s high resolution (provided by the shearography method - 30 nm out-of-plane), possible defects can be found throughout various material combinations and defect depths.