Two companies submitted an update related to the Sandia Scanner Survey.
1. Product update: ULTRA IMAGE INTERNATIONAL
2. Product update: ABB AMDATA
Catamaran is the new Scanner from ABB AMDATA.

ABSTRACT

The goal of this project was to produce a document that contains information on the usability and performance of commercially available, fieldable, and portable scanner systems as they apply to aircraft nondestructive inspections. In particular, the scanners are used to generate images of eddy current, ultrasonic, or bond tester inspection data. The scanner designs include manual scanners, semiautomated scanners, and fully automated scanners. A brief description of the functionality of each scanner type, a sketch, and a list of the companies that support the particular design are provided. Vendors of each scanner type provided hands-on demonstrations of their equipment on aircraft samples in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aging Aircraft Nondestructive Inspection Validation Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. From evaluations recorded during the demonstrations, a matrix of scanner features and factors and ranking of the capabilities and limitations of the design, portability, articulation, performance, usability, and computer hardware/software was constructed to provide a quick reference to compare the different scanner types. Illustrations of Cscan images obtained during the demonstration are shown.

PREFACE

This work was performed at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aging Aircraft Nondestructive Inspection Validation Center (AANC) in Albuquerque, NM, and sponsored by the FAA Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ. The author was able to conduct the scanner evaluations through the cooperation of vendors who participated in the demonstrations. The author expresses his appreciation for the time, effort, and expense the vendor participants and sales representatives incurred while performing the hands-on demonstrations. The author also thanks other members of the AANC staff for their support.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Full Text EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION Background, Goal, Objectives DEMONSTRATION AND EVALUATION PROCESS Scanner System Design Identification Choosing Vendors for Hands-on Demonstrations Aircraft Samples Steps of the Performance Demonstration SCANNER EVALUATION MATRIX Evaluation Matrix Contents Table 1 (sep. page): Scanner Evaluation Matrix for Eddy Current and Ultrasonic C-Scan Imaging of Inspection Results EXAMPLE C-SCAN IMAGES DISCUSSION CONCLUSIONS APPENDICES .... A - SCANNER DESCRIPTIONS (sep. page) B - LIST OF VENDORS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE DEMONSTRATIONS (sep. page) C - AANC AIRCRAFT SAMPLE DESCRIPTIONS (sep. page) D - EVALUATION MATRIX FEATURES AND FACTORS RANKING CRITERIA (sep. page) E - EXAMPLES OF C-SCAN IMAGES (sep. page) F - GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE SCANNER TYPES (sep. page) NOMENCLATURE

APPENDICE E - EXAMPLES OF C-SCAN IMAGES Krautkramer, Branson, Hocking with Paul Martin articulating the manual scanner