Material condition assessment with eddy current sensors
    1.
    发明授权
    Material condition assessment with eddy current sensors 有权
    用涡流传感器进行材料状态评估

    公开(公告)号:US07812601B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-10-12

    申请号:US12484761

    申请日:2009-06-15

    IPC分类号: G01N27/72 G01N27/90

    CPC分类号: G01N27/9046

    摘要: Eddy current sensors and sensor arrays are used for process quality and material condition assessment of conducting materials. In an embodiment, changes in spatially registered high resolution images taken before and after cold work processing reflect the quality of the process, such as intensity and coverage. These images also permit the suppression or removal of local outlier variations. Anisotropy in a material property, such as magnetic permeability or electrical conductivity, can be intentionally introduced and used to assess material condition resulting from an operation, such as a cold work or heat treatment. The anisotropy is determined by sensors that provide directional property measurements. The sensor directionality arises from constructs that use a linear conducting drive segment to impose the magnetic field in a test material. Maintaining the orientation of this drive segment, and associated sense elements, relative to a material edge provides enhanced sensitivity for crack detection at edges.

    摘要翻译: 涡流传感器和传感器阵列用于导电材料的工艺质量和材料状况评估。 在一个实施例中,在冷加工处理之前和之后拍摄的空间注册的高分辨率图像的变化反映了过程的质量,例如强度和覆盖。 这些图像还允许抑制或去除局部异常值变化。 可以有意地引入材料性质的各向异性,例如磁导率或电导率,以用于评估由诸如冷加工或热处理的操作引起的材料状况。 各向异性由提供定向性质测量的传感器确定。 传感器方向性来自使用线性传导驱动段将磁场施加在测试材料中的结构。 维持该驱动段和相关感测元件相对于材料边缘的方向为边缘处的裂纹检测提供了增强的灵敏度。

    Internal material condition monitoring for control
    2.
    发明授权
    Internal material condition monitoring for control 有权
    内部物料状态监控用于控制

    公开(公告)号:US08981018B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-03-17

    申请号:US11079912

    申请日:2005-03-14

    摘要: The condition of internal or hidden material layers or interfaces is monitored and used for control of a process that changes a condition of a material system. The material system has multiple component materials, such as layers or embedded constituents, or can be represented with multiple layers to model spatial distributions in the material properties. The material condition changes as a result of a process performed on the material, such as by cold working, or from functional operation. Sensors placed proximate to the test material surface or embedded between material layers are used to monitor a material property using magnetic, electric, or thermal interrogation fields. The sensor responses are converted into states of the material condition, such as temperature or residual stress, typically with a precomputed database of sensor responses. The sensor responses can also be used to determine properties of the test material, such as electrical conductivity or magnetic permeability, prior to conversion to the material state. The states are used to support control decisions that control the process or operation causing the material condition to change.

    摘要翻译: 监控内部或隐藏的材料层或界面的状况,并用于控制改变材料系统状态的过程。 材料系统具有多种组分材料,例如层或嵌入组分,或者可以用多层来表示材料性质中的空间分布。 材料状态由于通过冷加工或功能操作在材料上进行的过程而改变。 使用放置在测试材料表面附近或嵌入材料层之间的传感器用于使用磁,电或热询问场监测材料特性。 传感器响应被转换为材料状态的状态,例如温度或残余应力,通常具有传感器响应的预计算数据库。 在转换到材料状态之前,传感器响应也可用于确定测试材料的性质,例如导电性或磁导率。 这些状态用于支持控制过程或操作的控制决策,从而导致材料状况发生变化。

    Material condition monitoring with multiple sensing modes
    3.
    发明授权
    Material condition monitoring with multiple sensing modes 有权
    物料状态监测与多种感应模式

    公开(公告)号:US07451657B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-11-18

    申请号:US11036780

    申请日:2005-01-14

    IPC分类号: G01B5/30

    CPC分类号: G01N27/9013

    摘要: Methods are described for assessing material condition. These methods include the use of multiple source fields for interrogating and loading of a multicomponent test material. Source fields include electric, magnetic, thermal, and acoustic fields. The loading field preferentially changes the material properties of a component of the test material, which allows the properties of the component materials to be separated. Methods are also described for monitoring changes in material state using separate drive and sense electrodes with some of the electrodes positioned on a hidden or even embedded material surface. Statistical characterization of the material condition is performed with sensor arrays that provide multiple responses for the material condition during loading. The responses can be combined into a statistical population that permits tracking with respect to loading history. Methods are also described for measuring the stress in the material by independently estimating effective electrical properties, such as magnetic permeability or electrical conductivity, using layered models or predetermined spatial distributions with depth that are then correlated with the stress.

    摘要翻译: 描述了评估材料状况的方法。 这些方法包括使用多个源字段来询问和加载多组分测试材料。 源场包括电,磁,热和声场。 加载场优先改变测试材料的组分的材料性质,这允许分离组分材料的性质。 还描述了用于使用单独的驱动和感测电极来监测材料状态的变化的方法,其中一些电极位于隐藏的或甚至嵌入的材料表面上。 使用传感器阵列进行材料状态的统计表征,这些传感器阵列在加载期间为材料状态提供多个响应。 响应可以组合成允许跟踪加载历史的统计数据。 还描述了通过使用分层模型或具有深度的预定空间分布独立地估计有效电特性(例如磁导率或导电性)来测量材料中的应力的方法,然后与应力相关联。

    Material Condition Assessment with Eddy Current Sensors
    6.
    发明申请
    Material Condition Assessment with Eddy Current Sensors 有权
    涡流传感器材料条件评估

    公开(公告)号:US20100026285A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-02-04

    申请号:US12484761

    申请日:2009-06-15

    IPC分类号: G01R33/12

    CPC分类号: G01N27/9046

    摘要: Eddy current sensors and sensor arrays are used for process quality and material condition assessment of conducting materials. In an embodiment, changes in spatially registered high resolution images taken before and after cold work processing reflect the quality of the process, such as intensity and coverage. These images also permit the suppression or removal of local outlier variations. Anisotropy in a material property, such as magnetic permeability or electrical conductivity, can be intentionally introduced and used to assess material condition resulting from an operation, such as a cold work or heat treatment. The anisotropy is determined by sensors that provide directional property measurements. The sensor directionality arises from constructs that use a linear conducting drive segment to impose the magnetic field in a test material. Maintaining the orientation of this drive segment, and associated sense elements, relative to a material edge provides enhanced sensitivity for crack detection at edges.

    摘要翻译: 涡流传感器和传感器阵列用于导电材料的工艺质量和材料状况评估。 在一个实施例中,在冷加工处理之前和之后拍摄的空间注册的高分辨率图像的变化反映了过程的质量,例如强度和覆盖。 这些图像还允许抑制或去除局部异常值变化。 可以有意地引入材料性质的各向异性,例如磁导率或电导率,以用于评估由诸如冷加工或热处理之类的操作引起的材料状况。 各向异性由提供定向性质测量的传感器确定。 传感器方向性来自使用线性传导驱动段将磁场施加在测试材料中的结构。 维持该驱动段和相关感测元件相对于材料边缘的方向为边缘处的裂纹检测提供了增强的灵敏度。