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NLAD CHEETAH
™
THE FASTEST WAY TO GET
AIRCRAFT BACK IN THE AIR
There’s a good reason we named this history-making, non-destructive testing
instrument after the fastest land animal on Earth. Its unique
technology completes routine inspections of composite materials
in a fraction of the time needed for subjective, manual tap testing.
When you run with the NLAD Cheetah™ tester you can test for damage
right in the field. Its accuracy and ease of use helps get your aircraft airborne
instead of grounded as tap testing drags on.
Simple Accuracy
Labor Savings
The hand-held, easily deployed NLAD Cheetah quickly assesses
suspected damage from bird strikes, overheating, lightning and
other physical trauma. You get immediate and accurate feedback as
to whether disbondings, delamination or degradation has occurred
in rotary wings, fuselages and other structures made of today’s
advanced composite materials.
The NLAD Cheetah is simple to operate, so teaching untrained
personnel to use it is very quick and easy. Damage can be rapidly
quantified, saving time and money by eliminating premature or
unnecessary repairs.
Unlike testing devices that are complicated to operate, the NLAD
Cheetah is easy and fast. It delivers results multiple times faster
than the time-consuming method of tap testing, responding in
real-time with a green, yellow or red light to indicate material
condition as pass, intermediate or fail.
Lead the pack in the hunt for
mechanical disbonding, delaminations, crushed cores,
thermal degradation and voids with the speed and
ease of the NLAD Cheetah.
Test in the Field
Without the advantage of an NLAD Cheetah, parts suspected
of damage often must be fully disassembled and transported to
a soundproof testing room. With structures such as jet engine
nacelles, parts must be removed to test composite material on
both inside and outside surfaces.
The NLAD Cheetah can test both farside and nearside
laminates and bonds from the nearside surface, all right in the
field using Impact Resonance Testing. As NLAD’s Rapid ElectroMechanical Impact Hammer (REMIH) taps the composite
material’s surface, vibrations are recorded by an acoustic
broadband receiver and analyzed to determine the integrity
of the material. Such exacting technology enables detection
of a disbond on either side of a composite structure without
disassembling it.
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ADVANTAGES OF THE NLAD CHEETAH,™ ON THE FLY
n Locates and quantifies disbonds, delaminations, crushed
core, thermal degradation, and voids, presenting the
relevant data with an intuitive touch-screen interface
running on an Android operating system.
n Lightweight and hand-held
for field deployment.
n Ease of use reduces aircraft
downtime by enhancing
routine inspection procedures.
n Provides rapid assessment
testing in cases of suspected
damage while in the field.
n Audio alarm and “traffic
light” visual display indicates
condition of material under
test.
n Battery-operated with a “low battery level” indication.
n Shoulder strap for one-hand operation.
n USB, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections to copy data
files from the instrument, enabling data to be instantly
transmitted via the internet for off-site expert analysis.
n Ten Gigabytes of internal storage (expandable with MicroSD cards), can store over two million readings or signatures.
Save and archive them with meaningful filenames to easily
build a database of historical information.
n Application software upgrades for advanced functions can
be downloaded and installed remotely through the NLAD
CheetahTM website.
TARGET NDI
APPLICATIONS
n Composite Aerospace Components
• Rotary Wings
• Aircraft Fuselage
n The REMIH’s switch membrane starts and stops testing,
and increases or decreases the impact strength.
• Nacelle Systems
n Impact strength setting is displayed on the REMIH by an
LED screen.
• Honeycomb Sandwich Structures
n The REMIH has a tri-color LED indicator that illuminates
green, yellow or red to indicate material condition as pass,
intermediate or fail respectively.
• Aircraft Control Surfaces
• Composite Turbine Fan Blades
n Wind and Motor Sports
• Automotive passenger cells
• Automotive body panels
• Sailboat spars and masts
• Boat hulls
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