scope:

This document provides guidelines for qualification of NDE procedures by demonstration. The qualification provides minimum requirements for some NDE procedures that meet conditions stated within. The qualification covers those applications where NDE flaw detetability is given as a flaw size. The document is intended comply with NASA-STD-5009 guidelines. It also provides guidelines for NDE procedure qualification methods not covered in NASA-STD-5009 and appropriate approval is required before using these approaches. The guide is not intended to cover qualification of every kind of NDE procedure.

APPLICABILITY

The guideline is applicable to POD demonstration test for qualification of the Special NDE procedures. This guideline is also applicable to limited validation of flaw detectability size in Custom NDE procedures. The guideline also covers a case where both POD demonstration and limited validation are used.