Joint Lecture with Engineers Australia

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The Perth branch in conjunction with Engineers Australia present a lecture by Dr Alan Baker, 2009 recipient of the biennial Lawrence Hargraves award of the Royal Aeronautical Society Australian Division for outstanding contributions to aeronautics by Australians.

Dr Baker will be describing his development of crack patching, the use of adhesively bonded fibre-composite reinforcements to repair defective metallic aircraft components.  This technology  has become accepted as a cost-effective and highly structurally efficient repair method.  CP technology, developed in DSTO from the early 70s, has been widely exploited by ADF for repairing fatigue cracks in C130, Mirage, F111 and F/A-18.

The lecture will firstly provide background on the basis, scope and advantages of CP when compared with conventional repair approaches, based on mechanically fastened metallic patches.  Some of the key underpinning materials engineering and design technologies will be outlined followed by a brief description of several repair applications, including some undertaken commercially for the USAF and US Army.

The scope of CP is much broader than the repair of cracks; for example, it can be used to reduce stress or repair corrosion damage. Non-aerospace examples used by the Australian Defence Forces include the reinforcement of welds in FFG ships and the repair of abrasion damage in artillery guns.

Join us at 5.30  for finger food and to network with your friends and peers.