JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #119 - March 2018 - 19

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Non-Destructive Testing, on location, brings cost and time savings with safety benefits
The increased use of advanced materials, such as Composites, has highlighted the need for new tools which provide useful
chemical information at every stage of the life of a product from Research and Development to 'in use'.
Agilent's handheld spectrometer, the Agilent 4300
FTIR, may be small, but it performs as well as, if
not better than some laboratory based systems.
Coupled with specific applications it becomes a
simple to use tool which allows Non-Destructive
Testing of materials on location be it a warehouse,
aircraft hangar or on a remote hilltop testing wind
turbine blades. Results are produced based on a
simple traffic light system allowing rapid go-no go
decisions to be made which bring greater efficiency.
Proven composite applications
Non-Destructive Testing, on location, brings cost,
time and safety benefits. Typical applications
include Positive Material Identification, Degree of
Cure in Composites and mix ratio of a 2 part paint
prior to application.

Proven Composite Applications
TD : Thermal Damage
Plasma : Cleaning Efficacy
Coating : various including cure, mix-ratio wet
or dry, weathering, ID
FRHF : Ingress of fire resistant hydraulic fluid
HF_Ext : Phosphoric Acid aqueous extract of FRHF
RA : Release agent quantification
Cure : Degree of cure / cure state
H2O : moisture ingress
FRP = Fiber reinforced Polymer Composite
Fig. 1 Proven composite analysis applications of the Agilent 4300 FTIR

Fig. 2 CFRP Composite Cure. Analysis of the degree of cure of the composites with the Agilent 4300 FTIR

Thermal Damage of CFRP
Other typical application is the analysis of Thermal Damage.
The Agilent 4300 FTIR instrument tests the sample in-depthly analysing the resultant data before yielding
a traffic light linked result in under 30 seconds.

Measure chemical composition of coating systems

Whether you develop and manufacture coating systems or use coatings in your products or applications, the Agilent 4300 FTIR system
allow for non-destructive analysis of coatings wherever and whenever
needed for developing and manufacturing coating systems or using
coatings in your products or applications.
Applications for coating analysis include gathering critical data about
coating's function and performance, determination if the coating will
maintain consistent high quality over its lifecycle and real-time measurements without cutting, grinding, or destroying the sample-or
having to take it to a lab.
Find out more on how Agilent 4300 FTIR handheld
system can advance your composites and polymers analysis.

Fig. 3 Thermal Damage analysis. Thanks to the Agilent
4300 FTIR user friendly design, it delivers a fast color
coded results

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