Validation of SHM Sensors in Airbus A380 Full‐Scale Fatigue Test

IABG is responsible for conducting the A380 full-scale fatigue test at its company site in Dresden, Germany. The A380 full-scale fatigue test setup has been erected by IABG in 2004/2005 and the test was started on September 1, 2005. Airbus has introduced a number of Structural health monitoring (SHM) means into the test specimen for validation of innovative shm technologies. Keywords: Industrieanlagen Betriebsgesellschaft, independent German test institute and engineering service provider (IABG); structural health monitoring (SHM); nondestructive testing (NDT); mean time between failures (MTBF); acoutic emission (AE); eddy-current foil sensors (ETFS); comparative vacuum monitoring (CVM)