NASA's Method and Means to Analyze Thermographic Data Acquired During Automated Fiber Placement 

NASA Langley Research Center has created a non-destructive testing method for items made of carbon fiber by automated machinery.
Automated Fiber Placement machines (AFP) can be susceptible to tow-tape defects such as gaps and overlaps. These can reduce strength between 7% and 32%. Automated inspection is not fully effective, and current AFP systems rely heavily on visual based inspections of each ply layer to detect and correct these tape defects.
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