In-situ calibration of pulsed eddy current detection of cracks at fasteners in CP-140 aircraft

The use of the Smallest Half Volume (SHV) robust statistics method and the Mahalanobis distance to blindly distinguish fasteners with cracks from fasteners without is examined. Pulsed eddy current data obtained from CP140 Aurora wing structures is used to test the approach. It is shown that the method can achieve levels of detection very close to those obtained when the same measurement technique is applied with full knowledge of which fasteners have no cracks. The method is applicable to a broad range of similar situations when an objective hit/miss criterion is used.

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