FORT ATKINSON, Wis. - The days having our aircraft be able to tell us exactly what is wrong with them and where are still a ways off into the future, but while we wait for fully integrated smart aircraft, smart washers are filling some gaps, Walker Jaroch reports for AviationPros. Continue reading original article.
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25 April 2022 - Designed by JPB Système for Airbus Helicopters, smart washers work by providing the information of the bolt’s actual load, details Jonathan Beaumel, project engineer with JPB-Système.
“It allows you to know without touching the assembly, without interfering on the assembly, on the bolt, it allows you to know if it is correctly tightened or correctly torqued, without any intervention on it,” he said.
Inside the washers are electronics that provide the information on the force and relay the information to a communication module outside of it, with the benefit of being battery-less.
The washers also track what work has been done, who did it and even the GPS coordinates for said work.
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