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US 2003/0150271 A1Published application
Method, system, and means for ultrasound inspection
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsKevin Paul Deveney, William Evan McCormack, Richard Scott Chennell
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Abstract
A method of ultrasound inspection is provided. The method comprises providing a composite first part, introducing ultrasound to the part, receiving reflections of the ultrasound introduced in the first part, and predicting a residual strength of the first part using an amplitude of the received reflections.
Claims20
A method of ultrasound inspection, said method comprising:
- providing a composite first part;
- introducing ultrasound to the first part;
- receiving reflections of the ultrasound introduced to the first part;
- and
- predicting a residual strength of the first part using an amplitude of the received reflections.
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A ultrasound inspection system comprising:
- a pulse echo transducer;
- and
- a processor operationally coupled to said transducer, said processor configured to predict a residual strength of a first part using an amplitude of a received ultrasound reflection.
An ultrasound inspection device comprising:
- means for non-destructively testing a first part;
- and
- means for predicting a residual strength of the first part using a result from a non-destructive test of the first part with a plurality of destructive and non-destructive tests on second parts substantially similar to the first part.
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