Payload Fairing
Published July 7, 2025
- Part Size: ~20” x 30”
- Materials:
- Aluminum honeycomb
- CFRP skin
- Core adhesive splice
- Cork layers (circular + horizontal splice)
- Surface Mapping: Creaform 3D laser map used
- Scan Type:
- Laminography
- High-Resolution Laminography
- Software: Omni Iris with full kinematics model, STL & surface map import
- Settings (Standard):
- 40 kVp @ 5.5 W
- 23 min scan time
- 185 µm reconstruction
- Settings (High-Res):
- 60 kVp @ 4 W
- 55 min scan time
- 40 µm reconstruction
- Findings:
- Adhesive gap in core splice
- Porosity in CFRP skin
- IQI D12, 63 µm line pair resolved