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Electromagnetic Testing - Eddy Current Testing Applications Chapter 5 & 6

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(c) Aircraft wheels: Aircraft wheels are prone to fatigue cracks in the tyre<br />

bead seat radius with the cracks growing circumferentially along the radius, it<br />

is therefore standard practice to test this region, and sometimes other regions,<br />

by eddy current testing. If a standard surface probe is used to test the wheel<br />

bead seat radius, it must have a small diameter coil in order to detect small<br />

cracks. However, the radius is relatively wide, especially on a large wheel, so<br />

a number of scans are required to test the whole area. To ensure the whole<br />

area is tested, it is common practice to use a probe guide block, consisting of<br />

a plastic block moulded to fit the radius of the wheel being tested, with a<br />

number of holes, of a diameter to allow a slender pencil probe (of the type<br />

shown in the centre left of FIG. 5.4) to be inserted, drilled through it to meet<br />

the radius at small intervals around the radius (see FIG. 5.13a).<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang

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