Workshop Overview

The Air Force Materials Laboratory has been sponsoring a series of workshops for the last three years. The goals of these workshops are both general and specific, but what we are really trying to achieve here is to proceed with the job of translating, to find areas of research that can be moved, can be stimulated, can be brought to bear on specific problems. We are really out here looking for ideas. That\u27s the name of the game in this business. Nondestructive evaluation is an unusual field in that there are almost no experts. There is no one group to which you can point and say, This is where it is happening. These are the people who are moving the field

REMEDIES, REDRESS AND "CALLING TO ACCOUNT": SOME MYTHS ABOUT THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATION

REMEDIES, REDRESS AND "CALLING TO ACCOUNT": SOME MYTHS ABOUT THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATIO

Design and Simulation of a Supervisory Control System for Hybrid Manufacturing

The research teams of Dr. Bill Hamel, Dr. Bradley Jared and Dr. Tony Schmitz were tasked by the Office of Naval Research to create a hybrid manufacturing process for a reduced scale model of a naval ship propeller. The base structure of the propeller is created using Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM), which is then scanned to compare created geometry to desired geometry. The propeller is then machined down to match the desired geometry. This process is iterated upon until the final product meets design tolerances. Due to the complex nature and numerous industrial machines used in the process, it is desirable to create a control system for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA). This supervisory control system is necessary in order to ensure safe operations and logging of system data to document successful trials. The goal of this thesis is to outline the design and simulation of a supervisory control system for this hybrid manufacturing cell. The design and implementation is focused on a simulation of the control of relevant boolean states of the system. This is accomplished through a Human Machine Interface (HMI) created in LabVIEW accompanied by appropriate data flow diagrams, models and communication specifications between machines. The creation of a digital twin of this hybrid manufacturing system was successful and useful in the implementation of physical components

International NDE Effort: Future Directions

Good Morning. My name is Mike Buckley. This morning we are fortunate to have several visitors here from overseas. We wanted to give them the opportunity to give us a summary of what is going on in their country or their institutions and, if they want to make some comment as to how it compares to what is going on here

Potential Cost Savings Through Advanced NDE

I would like to point out that, although the title of this talk is Potential Cost Savings Through Advanced NDE, it doesn\u27t mean that we\u27re ignoring the area of structural safety, but rather we \u27re trying to add to it. In addition, we\u27re not ignoring the role of NDE in the utilization of new cost effective material s and structures, but this area has been discussed previously and I believe is fairly well established