Diane Wowk
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About
Diane Wowk is a researcher specializing in non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural evaluation of aerospace materials, with a particular focus on the inspection of aluminum honeycomb sandwich aircraft panels. Her work addresses a critical challenge in aviation maintenance: the inconsistency and subjectivity inherent in manual surface damage assessment, which can vary significantly depending on inspection personnel. Wowk's most notable contribution lies in pioneering the application of multi-frequency eddy current testing (ECT) for both surface profiling and core evaluation of aircraft honeycomb structures. By leveraging ECT's sensitivity to probe-to-specimen spacing — known as lift-off — her research demonstrates a promising pathway toward high-resolution, automated, and repeatable surface damage characterization. This approach has the potential to significantly enhance the reliability and standardization of aircraft structural inspections, with meaningful implications for aviation safety. Her 2017 publication on this topic has garnered citations across the NDT and aerospace engineering communities, reflecting the practical relevance of her findings. For students and researchers working at the intersection of aerospace structures and inspection technologies, Wowk's work represents an important step toward replacing subjective manual methods with rigorous, physics-based measurement techniques.
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