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CT for aerospaceInspect your most critical parts without destroying them

CT for aerospaceInspect your most critical parts without destroying them

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Secure your critical components

Turbine blades, Pitot tubes, landing gear, composite structures: in aerospace and aviation, every part must be inspected from every angle before it is integrated into the final system. Performance, reliability and compliance with standards leave no room for approximation.

See the invisible

X-ray CT offers a non-destructive approach to inspecting complex, dense or costly components, whatever their geometry. It enables inspection processes that are faster, safer and more complete than conventional methods.
Explore our CT systems: micro-CT, nano-CT, high-energy CT, custom-made.

CT to secure the quality of aerospace parts

<strong>Make critical components reliable</strong><br><br>Detect defects before they jeopardize a program.-image
Make critical components reliable

Detect defects before they jeopardize a program.
<strong>Inspect complex geometries</strong><br><br>Internal channels, composites and additively manufactured parts.-image
Inspect complex geometries

Internal channels, composites and additively manufactured parts.
<strong>Reduce quality risks</strong><br><br>Identify anomalies before assembly or entry into service.-image
Reduce quality risks

Identify anomalies before assembly or entry into service.
<strong>Ensure traceability</strong><br><br>Produce reliable data for audits and certifications.-image
Ensure traceability

Produce reliable data for audits and certifications.

Why CT in aerospace? Reduce quality risks on the most critical parts

In aerospace, a faulty part is never an option. CT detects defects earlier, helps you better understand failures and secures the most critical components throughout their development and production cycle.

  • Secure critical parts with a complete view of internal structures, without cutting or destroying the part.
  • Limit destructive testing by accessing internal geometries, cooling channels, lattice structures or complex assemblies without altering the sample.
  • Detect defects before entry into service by identifying porosity, cracks, inclusions, delamination and assembly defects that an external inspection can’t reveal.
  • Qualify new manufacturing processes by validating additively manufactured parts, composite materials or complex geometries before industrialization.
  • Speed up failure analysis through precise localization of defects within the part’s volume and observation of root causes without disassembly.
  • Improve compliance and traceability by automatically comparing a part to its CAD model and generating data usable for audits, qualifications and certification files.
  • Make simulation models more reliable with real 3D data capturing porosity, cracks, internal geometries and material characteristics.

Unlike destructive methods or partial inspections, CT provides a complete view of the part and lets you make decisions faster, even on the most complex or costly components.

What CT brings to your aerospace applications

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Inspect

Complex internal geometries, without cutting

Validate

Cooling networks, wall thicknesses

Certify

Conformity to aerospace industry standards

Secure

Defect detection before final assembly

Optimize

Real-world data fed into your simulation models

For your aerospace application

which RX Solutions CT system?

Not sure which CT system to choose? Our teams can advise you.

Tell us about your needs, the parts you want to analyze, your environment... We can run a demo on your parts and come back to you with a personalized CT system proposal.

We are used to working under NDA.

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Custom CT systems

Aerospace requirements that go beyond the standard?

Inspection of oversized parts, qualification of new additive manufacturing processes, complex structures or integration of specific equipment: some projects call for more than an off-the-shelf configuration.

RX Solutions also develops custom-made CT solutions to meet the most specific needs of aerospace, space and defense.

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Inspect, qualify and make critical aerospace components more reliable

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Composite material inspection before machining

Before machining composite parts, manufacturers can look for delamination zones, resin inhomogeneities or fiber orientation issues: key information for deciding whether the material can move on to the next steps.

  • Detection of delamination and porosity zones in composite structures;
  • Analysis of fiber orientation and distribution;
  • Fiber statistics to accept or reject a batch before machining;
  • Non-destructive inspection of honeycomb structures.
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Geometric inspection of critical parts

From turbine blades to landing gear, CT can validate geometries that traditional measurement methods cannot inspect.

  • Validation of a turbine blade’s internal cooling channel networks;
  • Wall thickness measurement on complex geometries;
  • Detection of drilling defects that create weak zones;
  • Comparison with a CAD model with deviation mapping, including wear and erosion.
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From material characterization to simulation

CT data isn’t only for quality control: it can feed your numerical simulation models directly.

  • Generation of internal and external meshes usable in finite element simulation;
  • Improved simulation accuracy by integrating real porosity, cracks and inclusions;
  • Characterization of additively manufactured parts before qualification.

Not sure a part as critical as a turbine blade can be 100% inspected without destroying it?

Typical applications in aerospace

Propulsion parts and turbines
Propulsion parts and turbines
Aerospace composite structures
Aerospace composite structures
Critical parts in high-performance alloys
Critical parts in high-performance alloys
Metal additive manufacturing
Metal additive manufacturing
Onboard electronics and control systems
Onboard electronics and control systems
Propulsion parts and turbines
Turbine blades, injectors, combustion chambers and cooling channels inspected to detect porosity, cracks, additive manufacturing defects and internal geometric deviations. 

CT for metal parts
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Aerospace composite structures
Sandwich panels, honeycomb structures and carbon-fiber parts inspected to identify delamination, porosity, impregnation defects and fiber orientation. 

Composites
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Critical parts in high-performance alloys
Titanium, Inconel and superalloy components analyzed to characterize their internal structure, validate conformity and secure entry into service. 

Our FORCE range
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Metal additive manufacturing
Complex parts and lattice structures qualified through porosity inspection, internal geometry inspection and CAD model comparison before certification. 

Additive manufacturing
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Onboard electronics and control systems
Sensors, connectors, circuit boards and electromechanical assemblies inspected without disassembly to speed up failure analysis and make equipment more reliable. 

Electronics
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Why choose RX Solutions for your aerospace applications?

RX Solutions designs CT systems that meet the strictest requirements of aerospace, aviation and defense, combining image quality, penetration power and configuration flexibility.

Aerospace quality control FAQ

Can internal cooling channels be inspected without cutting the part?
Yes. It is one of the most characteristic CT use cases in aerospace: it reveals the internal cooling networks of a turbine blade without cutting or destroying it.
Is CT used in series production, or only in aerospace R&D?
Both: in R&D for material characterization and validation of new processes, and in production for quality control of critical parts before assembly.
Can additively manufactured parts be qualified with CT?
Yes. CT can detect the porosity and internal defects specific to additive manufacturing, a key qualification step before integration.
What energy is needed to penetrate a titanium or Inconel part?
It depends on the thickness being crossed. The high-energy generators of the Force range, up to 450 kV, can inspect most dense aerospace parts while retaining very high resolution performance.
Can CT data feed a finite element simulation model?
Yes. Meshes generated from CT data can be used as input for simulations that account for the part’s real defects.
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Scan as a service

For your one-off needs, from a single part to a series, our Inspection Services team performs your 2D radiography and 3D CT scans.

 Our inspection services

Want to inspect a critical part with no compromise on quality?

Tell us about your need: we run trials on your parts and come back to you with a personalized recommendation.
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