Remote structural material evaluation apparatus
OwnerMoe Momayez, Ferri Hassaniinventors
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Abstract
A method of unobtrusive evaluation of structural material integrity without requiring physical contact for referencing integrity values, comprising: directing an impact source at said structural material; obtaining signal information from the structural material by optical reflectometry; and, processing the signal information to determine physical properties of the structural material.
Claims21
A method of unobtrusive evaluation of structural material integrity without requiring physical contact for referencing integrity values, comprising:
- directing an impact source at said structural material;
- obtaining signal information from said structural material by optical reflectometry;
- and,
- processing said signal information to determine physical properties of said structural material.
A method of unobtrusive analysis of a refractory component in a kiln or furnace structure without physical contact for referencing integrity values comprising:
- directing an impact source to impact the substrate of a structural material;
- detecting an impact signal from said structural material with an optical reflectometry laser;
- converting said impact signal to physical property elements of said structural material with programming means.
An apparatus for unobtrusive evaluation of structural material integrity without requiring physical contact for referencing integrity values comprising:
- an impact source;
- an optical reflectometry laser for generating an output signal and for receiving stress signals of structural material, said laser generating and output data signal adapted to be received by a computer;
- and,
- a computer program for determining structural integrity values from stress signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.