Thermal Nondestructive Evaluation Report : Inspection of the Refurbished Manipulator Arm System in the Manipulator Development Facility at Johnson Space Center 10-12 January 2001
- Author:
- Cramer, K. Elliott
- Published:
- July 2002.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
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- hdl.handle.net
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- Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available.
- Summary:
- On 4 December 2002, a failure of the Refurbished Manipulator Arm System (RMAS) occurred in the Manipulator Development Facility (MDF) at Johnson Space Center. When the Test Director commanded a should pitch maneuver to lift the arm from its payload bay pedestal, the yaw controls failed. This, coupled with a gravitational forces (due to the angle of the shoulder joint with respect to vertical), resulted in uncontrolled arm motion. The shoulder yaw joint moved approximately 20 degrees, causing the extended arm to strike and severely damage the port side MDF catwalk handrails. The arm motion stopped after impact with the handrails. On 10-12 January 2001, inspections were performed on the port face of the lower and upper arms of the RMAS using a infrared thermography developed at Langley Research Center. This paper presents the results of those nondestructive inspections and provides a complete description of the anomalies found and their locations.
- Collection:
- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 20020060764., NASA/TM-2002-211732., L-18177., and NAS 1.15:211732.
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- No Copyright.
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