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。

    Material Condition Assessment with Eddy Current Sensors
    2.
    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。

    Local feature characterization using quasistatic electromagnetic sensors
    3.
    发明授权
    Local feature characterization using quasistatic electromagnetic sensors 有权
    使用准静态电磁传感器的局部特征表征

    公开(公告)号:US07289913B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-10-30

    申请号:US11249047

    申请日:2005-10-11

    IPC分类号: G01B7/34 G06F17/40 G06F19/00

    CPC分类号: G01N27/023

    摘要: Local features such as cracks in materials are nondestructively characterized by measuring a response with an electromagnetic sensor and converting this response into a selected property using a database. The database is generated prior to data acquisition by using a model to generate a baseline response or field distribution for the sensor and combining these results with another model, which may be simpler than the first model or provide a local representation of the field perturbations around a feature, which is evaluated multiple times over a range of values of the selected property. In addition, the presence of a feature may be detected by converting the sensor response into a reference parameter, such as a lift-off factor that reflects the sensor position relative to a material edge, and using this parameter to determine a reference response that can be compared to the measured response.

    摘要翻译: 局部特征如材料中的裂纹是非破坏性的,其特征在于通过用电磁传感器测量响应并使用数据库将该响应转换成选定的属性。 在数据采集之前通过使用模型生成数据库以生成传感器的基线响应或场分布,并将这些结果与另一模型相结合,该模型可以比第一模型更简单,或者提供周围的场扰动的局部表示 功能,在所选属性的值范围内多次评估。 此外,可以通过将传感器响应转换为参考参数来检测特征的存在,所述参考参数例如反映相对于材料边缘的传感器位置的剥离因子,并且使用该参数来确定可以 与测量响应进行比较。

    Hybrid wound/etched winding constructs for scanning and monitoring
    5.
    发明授权
    Hybrid wound/etched winding constructs for scanning and monitoring 有权
    用于扫描和监测的混合伤口/蚀刻绕组结构

    公开(公告)号:US07518360B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-04-14

    申请号:US11809555

    申请日:2007-06-01

    IPC分类号: G01N27/82 G01R33/12

    CPC分类号: G01N27/9046 G01N27/82

    摘要: Combined wound and micro-fabricated winding constructs are described for the inspection of materials and the detection and characterization of hidden features or flaws. These constructs can be configured as sensors or sensor arrays that are surface mounted or scanned over conducting and/or magnetizable test materials. The well-defined geometry obtained micro-fabricated windings and from carefully wound coils with known winding positions permits the use of model based inversions of sensed responses into material properties. In a preferred embodiment, the primary winding is a wound coil and the sense elements are etched or printed. The drive or sense windings can also be mounted under fasteners to improve sensitivity to hidden flaws. Ferrites and other means may be used to guide the magnetic flux and enhance the magnetic field in the test material.

    摘要翻译: 描述了组合伤口和微制造的缠绕结构,用于材料的检查和隐藏特征或缺陷的检测和表征。 这些结构可以配置为在导电和/或可磁化测试材料上进行表面安装或扫描的传感器或传感器阵列。 精确定义的几何形状获得微制造的绕组和从已知缠绕位置的小心缠绕的线圈允许使用基于模型的感测响应的反演到材料特性中。 在优选实施例中,初级绕组是缠绕线圈,并且感测元件被蚀刻或印刷。 驱动或感测绕组也可以安装在紧固件下,以提高对隐藏缺陷的敏感性。 可以使用铁氧体等手段来引导磁通量并增强测试材料中的磁场。

    Hybrid wound/etched winding constructs for scanning and monitoring
    6.
    发明申请
    Hybrid wound/etched winding constructs for scanning and monitoring 有权
    用于扫描和监测的混合伤口/蚀刻绕组结构

    公开(公告)号:US20080258720A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-10-23

    申请号:US11809555

    申请日:2007-06-01

    IPC分类号: G01N27/82

    CPC分类号: G01N27/9046 G01N27/82

    摘要: Combined wound and micro-fabricated winding constructs are described for the inspection of materials and the detection and characterization of hidden features or flaws. These constructs can be configured as sensors or sensor arrays that are surface mounted or scanned over conducting and/or magnetizable test materials. The well-defined geometry obtained micro-fabricated windings and from carefully wound coils with known winding positions permits the use of model based inversions of sensed responses into material properties. In a preferred embodiment, the primary winding is a wound coil and the sense elements are etched or printed. The drive or sense windings can also be mounted under fasteners to improve sensitivity to hidden flaws. Ferrites and other means may be used to guide the magnetic flux and enhance the magnetic field in the test material.

    摘要翻译: 描述了组合伤口和微制造的缠绕结构,用于材料的检查和隐藏特征或缺陷的检测和表征。 这些结构可以配置为在导电和/或可磁化测试材料上进行表面安装或扫描的传感器或传感器阵列。 精确定义的几何形状获得微制造的绕组和从已知缠绕位置的小心缠绕的线圈允许使用基于模型的感测响应的反演到材料特性中。 在优选实施例中,初级绕组是缠绕线圈,并且感测元件被蚀刻或印刷。 驱动或感测绕组也可以安装在紧固件下,以提高对隐藏缺陷的敏感性。 可以使用铁氧体等手段来引导磁通量并增强测试材料中的磁场。