A Summary of Nondestructive Testing Application in Chinese Civil Aircraft Industry

Nondestructive testing (NDT) program is required for the whole aircraft life. From the viewpoint of the top NDT organization, the NDT work-frame of civil aircraft industry is described. The tasks among the headquarters, research institutes, manufactory, customer service and maintainance, and airline have been divided. The operation duties between the program manager group and the technical engineer group have been described. The main items such as the NDT IPT Group, the NDT in the large loading test, the measurement system analysis of NDT are also presented. These achievements could be widely applied in the other industries.