Method for evaluating burnishing element condition
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsAlberto Luna, Dale Robert Lombardo
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Abstract
A method of evaluating the condition of a rolling burnishing element includes moving a burnishing element having an unknown condition against a surface in a preselected test pattern; while moving the burnishing element, recording at least one test force profile representative of a force acting on the burnishing element in at least one dimension; and comparing the at least one test force profile to at least one baseline force profile to determine a deviation of the condition of the second burnishing element from a baseline condition.
Claims12
A method of evaluating the condition of a rolling burnishing element, comprising:
- (a) moving a burnishing element having an unknown condition against a surface in a preselected test pattern;
- (b) while moving the burnishing element, recording at least one test force profile representative of a force acting on the burnishing element in at least one dimension;
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- (c) comparing the at least one test force profile to at least one baseline force profile to determine a deviation of the condition of the second burnishing element from a baseline condition.
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