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Not knowing an awful lot about composite engineering, would a visual inspection pick up environmental damage of a composite aircraft frame? i.e. damage caused by UV, humidity etc, or would a more invasive technique such as ultrasound required? I'm thinking of 6 to 12 year inspections, not a...

Thanks guys. So I think the answer then is no, in static joints there should be no fretting wear.

Does anyone have any information or exmaple figures for wind turbine blade failure rates? I'm performing a risk assessment for siting a turbine near a gas pipeline and need some idea of failure frequency. Thanks

Thanks for the replies. I appreciate that 'corrosion' is a misleading term when applied to composites. What I'm really asking is, would you expect to see a 3000 FH (or so) check for degredation in similar locations to those you would expect to see fretting on metallic components?

I'm conducting an MSG-3 Analysis on a largly composite aircraft but I'm not too sure if carbon/fibre composites suffer from a type of fretting corrosion or not. Anyone?