The Boeing Company

Kristen Sharp

John F Spalding, Jr

John F Spalding

Meredith M Bird

Melissa Holt Lutz

Melissa Lutz

An apparatus for thermal management of a composite plies and adhesive applied to a repair area on a composite structure uses a combination of an optical scanner and projection system, coded photogrammetric targets, a coded two-dimensional thermocouple array and a coded heat blanket that all communicate with a computerized control system that develops spatial relationships between the composite structure being repaired, the repair area of the composite structure, the thermocouples used to monitor the temperatures in the repair area and the heat blanket used to heat the repair area. The optical scanner and projection system projects identifications of the thermocouples and the real time temperatures of the thermocouples at the positions of the thermocouples over the repair area on the composite structure.

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Mt. Pleasant, SC, United States of America

Kristen Sharp