SOUND VELOCITY SENSOR FOR UNDERWATER USE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING UNDERWATER SOUND VELOCITY

    公开(公告)号:EP3390987A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-24

    申请号:EP17838026.7

    申请日:2017-03-02

    IPC分类号: G01H5/00

    摘要: A sound velocity sensor for underwater use has an acoustic transmitter and receiver, a path length portion defining an acoustic path and positioned such that a generated acoustic signal propagates along the acoustic path from the acoustic transmitter to the receiver, a temperature sensor in direct contact with the path length portion, and a controller communicatively coupled to these components. The controller is configured to generate the acoustic signal using the acoustic transmitter, determine a transit time of the acoustic signal from the acoustic transmitter to the acoustic receiver, determine a temperature of the path length portion using the temperature sensor, and determine the velocity of the acoustic signal from the transit time and a length of the acoustic path. Determining the velocity includes compensating for a temperature-related change in the length of the acoustic path using the temperature of the path length portion.

    DERIVING CONTACT STRESS OR CONTACT LOAD USING ULTRASOUND DATA
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    发明公开
    DERIVING CONTACT STRESS OR CONTACT LOAD USING ULTRASOUND DATA 审中-公开
    使用超声波数据推导接触应力或接触载荷

    公开(公告)号:EP3183544A2

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-28

    申请号:EP15744289.8

    申请日:2015-07-22

    摘要: An analysis device 110 comprising an input to receive ultrasound data from an interface 127 between two elements 123 and 125 moving relative to each other or tribologically; ultrasound transducer 120 is mounted onto element 123. A processor determines time of flight data from the ultrasound data, the magnitude of the echo may be derived using a Fast Hilbert Transform and the envelope correlated with a reference signal. Contact stress and/or contact load is derived in the first element from time of flight data independent of phase shift. The greatest component of the ultrasound is perpendicular to the interface. In a second invention the stress may be derived from a change in speed of the ultrasound due to the acoustoelastic effect. The analysis device may be incorporated into a system for monitoring bearings, ball races, rolling element races or rolling elements in turbines, wind turbines, railed vehicles, vehicle tracks, metal rolling mills or hydro power generators.

    摘要翻译: 分析装置110包括用于接收来自两个元件123和125之间的界面127的相对于彼此或摩擦学移动的超声波数据的输入; 超声换能器120被安装到元件123上。处理器根据超声数据确定飞行时间数据,可以使用快速希尔伯特变换导出回波的幅度,并且该包络与参考信号相关。 接触应力和/或接触载荷在飞行时间数据的第一个元素中得出,与相移无关。 超声波的最大组成部分垂直于界面。 在第二个发明中,应力可以来源于由于声弹性效应引起的超声速度的变化。 分析装置可并入用于监测涡轮机中的轴承,球座,滚动体座圈或滚动体,风力涡轮机,有轨车辆,车辆轨道,金属轧机或水力发电机的系统中。