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Cranfield University in the UK has begun work on producing seven of the mirror segments for 'the world's biggest eye on the sky' - the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). A ground-based telescope, E-ELT will be 42m in diameter and made up of 1,000 hexagonal segments, each 1.5m wide and just 5cm thick.

Laser ultrasonics for Airbus

By the end of 2010, Airbus will have the world's most advanced Laser UT system for the inspection of composites. The equipment will be installed at Technocampus EMC2 (Nantes, France), the technology centre for the development of industrial applications of composite materials created jointly by Airbus, EADS-IW and CETIM.

Pushing the boundaries

Palaeontologists rub shoulders with aircraft designers at the Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility located at the University of Manchester. The Facility is openly available to academic and industrial users, who gather instant scientific proof regarding otherwise hidden information using radiography and computed tomography (CT).

3D future for NDT

As recently as a few years ago, when it came to quality assurance, two-dimensional X-ray inspection still prevailed in the aviation industry. Due to the increasing complexity of turbine blades and other parts to be inspected, three-dimensional computed tomography has gained more importance.

Spot on space vision

Europe's Ariane 5 rocket made its 50th flight from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on 21st May 2010, carrying two telecommunications satellites with a combined mass of almost eight tonnes. One of Britain’s contributions to the successful launch was the vision equipment that enabled robotic welding of the rocket’s upper stage nozzle.

Stamp of quality

Precision stampings specialist Batten & Allen Ltd is using a range of OGP SmartScope machines for the measurement of its miniature parts. Among the systems is a recently installed SmartScope Vantage 250 that is helping the company maintain quality excellence for a host of customers in sectors that include electronics, medical, automotive, telecommunications and solar energy.

Power to the pixel!

Digital Image Correlation (DIC) is an innovative non-contact optical technique for measuring surface deformation including strain and displacement that is now being used extensively in experimental mechanics for a diverse range of applications. DIC was first conceived and developed in the early 1980s, and has improved in accuracy since.

Electrifying quality

A UK-based manufacturer of electrical and electronic assemblies has attained manufacturing quality levels of 99.97% following the installation of fully automated, custom designed wire processing machinery at its factory in the West Midlands.

EMC - a lifecycle approach

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing and environmental testing are often viewed as separate functions, meaning that it is not unusual for separate products to be sent for test assessment. Frequently, EMC testing comes first and environmental testing much later in the product development cycle, with no correlation between the two sets of results.

Temperature and climate test systems check out Lithium-Ion batteries

The developers and engineers at Weiss Umwelttechnik GmbH, the specialist for environmental simulation systems, put their heads together with key experts from the automobile industry to come up with simulated-reality environmental test systems for batteries used in hybrid cars (conventional drive + battery).

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