This paper reviews the progress to date to formulate an artificial corrosion protocol for the Tinker AFB C/KC-135 Corrosion Fatigue Round Robin Test Program. The project has provided new test methods to faithfully reproduce the corrosion damage within a lap-splice by accelerated means, the rationale for a new laboratory test environment, and a means for corrosion damage quantification. The approach is pragmatic and the resulting artificial corrosion protocol lays the foundation for future research in the assessment of aerospace alloys. The general means for quantification of corrosion damage has been presented in a form which can be directly applied to structural integrity calculations.
Document ID: 19950013066. Accession ID: 95N19482. NASA. Langley Research Center, FAA(NASA International Symposium on Advanced Structural Integrity Methods for Airframe Durability and Damage Tolerance, Part 2; p 725-739.