Visual and/or dimensional tip inspection systems and methods
AssigneeRtx Corporation
InventorsKeith R. Boislard, Ozgur Erdinc, Kathryn S. Conety, Iuliana Cernatescu, Garrett Kernozicky
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Abstract
A method can comprise: scanning, via an optical scanner, a tip of an airfoil of a bladed rotor, the tip including a coating disposed thereon, the coating comprising a metal plating and a plurality of protrusions, each protrusion in the plurality of protrusions extending from the metal plating; comparing a coating parameter of the coating to a coating parameter threshold based on scanner data from the optical scanner; and determining whether the coating maintains sufficient coverage of the tip of the airfoil based on the comparing.
Claims10
A coating assessment system, comprising:
- a first scanner;
- a second scanner;
- a display;
- and
- a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, via the processor and through the first scanner, first scanner data from the first scanner for a tip of an airfoil of a bladed rotor, the tip including a coating disposed thereon, the coating comprising a metal plating and a plurality of protrusions;
- receiving, via the processor and through the second scanner, second scanner data from the second scanner for the tip of the airfoil of the bladed rotor;
- and
- refining a coating parameter threshold for a coating parameter based on the first scanner data, the second scanner data, and previously received data.
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