Advances in the Restoration of Damaged Aircraft Skin by the Cold Spray Technique

At the 2015 HVOF Colloquium held Oct 29-30 in Erdling Germany, Julio Villafuerte, Corporate Technology Strategist for Centerline presented a paper he co-wrote entitled " Advances in the Restoration of Damaged Aircraft Skin by the Cold Spray Technique" . 

This paper reviews the results of recent research aimed at validating the use of downstream injection Cold spray to locally restore the characteristics of damaged Aluminum clad layers on clad 2024-T3 aluminum alloy (Alclad 2024-T3) for commercial aircraft skins.

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