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Barrrrrrnd t1_j8obtkq wrote

Reply to comment by shadowmage666 in NASA's "evolved structures" radically reduce weight – and waiting by Maxcactus

Man I love living in the future. I wonder how they are able to account for possible issues with micro-cracks at the edge of the channels inside the closed object. Just normal x-ray?

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shadowmage666 t1_j8on1df wrote

Good question; not really sure how their QA process works but they probably have some type of intrusive scanning

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dblink t1_j8uwmgt wrote

Ultrasonic testing is probably the most common method of non intrusive/destructive scanning.

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