<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>For the characterisation of materials, the aeronautical industry accesses the expertise and the support of independent test laboratories. For the execution of characterisation tests of materials it is important that the test laboratory can fulfil the requirements of the testing expertly and continuously improves knowledge related to the tests. Quality systems are very helpful in this respect. One element of quality management systems is the internal round robin tests. This paper presents a procedure of teaching new operators to carry out tests. In addition, this article underlines how the importance of interlaboratory tests for finding and eliminating mistakes made by new operators. The analysis was performed for tensile tests. This test enables the assessment of operators and significantly improves the quality of tests.</p></abstract>

For the characterisation of materials, the aeronautical industry accesses the expertise and the support of independent test laboratories. For the execution of characterisation tests of materials it is important that the test laboratory can fulfil the requirements of the testing expertly and continuously improves knowledge related to the tests. Quality systems are very helpful in this respect. One element of quality management systems is the internal round robin tests. This paper presents a procedure of teaching new operators to carry out tests. In addition, this article underlines how the importance of interlaboratory tests for finding and eliminating mistakes made by new operators. The analysis was performed for tensile tests. This test enables the assessment of operators and significantly improves the quality of tests.

Internal Round Robin Tests for Operators of Mechanical Tests

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Fatigue of Aircraft Structures

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For the characterisation of materials, the aeronautical industry accesses the expertise and the support of independent test laboratories. For the execution of...

Internal Round Robin Tests for Operators of Mechanical Tests

Published Online: Jun 30, 2016

Page range: 52 - 60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fas-2015-0009

Keywords
internal round robin tests, tensile tests, quality system, interlaboratory tests

© 2015 Bartosz Madejski, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Internal Round Robin Tests for Operators of Mechanical Tests

Published Online: Jun 30, 2016

Page range: 52 - 60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fas-2015-0009

Keywordsinternal round robin tests, tensile tests, quality system, interlaboratory tests

© 2015 Bartosz Madejski, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
internal round robin tests, tensile tests, quality system, interlaboratory tests