Method and apparatus for non-destructive evaluation of materials
    1.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for non-destructive evaluation of materials 有权
    材料无损评估的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08928316B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-01-06

    申请号:US13297933

    申请日:2011-11-16

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for characterizing composite materials for manufacturing quality assurance (QA), periodic inspection during the useful life, or for forensic analysis/material testing. System are provided that relate eddy-current sensor responses to the fiber layup of a composite structure, the presence of impact damage on a composite structure with or without a metal liner, volumetric stress within the composite, fiber tow density, and other NDE inspection requirements. Also provided are systems that determine electromagnetic material properties and material dimensions of composite materials from capacitive sensor inspection measurements. These properties are related to the presence of buried defects in non-conductive composite materials, moisture ingress, aging of the material due to service or environmental/thermal exposure, or changes in manufacturing quality.

    摘要翻译: 表征用于制造质量保证(QA)的复合材料,使用寿命期间的定期检查或法医分析/材料测试的方法和装置。 提供了将涡电流传感器响应与复合结构的纤维叠层相关联的系统,在具有或不具有金属衬垫的复合结构上的冲击损伤的存在,复合材料内的体积应力,纤维丝束密度和其他NDE检查要求 。 还提供了从电容传感器检查测量确定复合材料的电磁材料性质和材料尺寸的系统。 这些性质与非导电复合材料中存在的掩埋缺陷有关,水分进入,由于使用或环境/热暴露引起的材料老化或制造质量的变化。

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF MATERIALS
    2.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF MATERIALS 有权
    材料非破坏性评价的方法与装置

    公开(公告)号:US20120126803A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-05-24

    申请号:US13297933

    申请日:2011-11-16

    IPC分类号: G01R33/12

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for characterizing composite materials for manufacturing quality assurance (QA), periodic inspection during the useful life, or for forensic analysis/material testing. System are provided that relate eddy-current sensor responses to the fiber layup of a composite structure, the presence of impact damage on a composite structure with or without a metal liner, volumetric stress within the composite, fiber tow density, and other NDE inspection requirements. Also provided are systems that determine electromagnetic material properties and material dimensions of composite materials from capacitive sensor inspection measurements. These properties are related to the presence of buried defects in non-conductive composite materials, moisture ingress, aging of the material due to service or environmental/thermal exposure, or changes in manufacturing quality.

    摘要翻译: 表征用于制造质量保证(QA)的复合材料,使用寿命期间的定期检查或法医分析/材料测试的方法和装置。 提供了将涡电流传感器响应与复合结构的纤维叠层相关联的系统,在具有或不具有金属衬垫的复合结构上的冲击损伤的存在,复合材料内的体积应力,纤维丝束密度和其他NDE检查要求 。 还提供了从电容传感器检查测量确定复合材料的电磁材料性质和材料尺寸的系统。 这些性质与非导电复合材料中存在的掩埋缺陷有关,水分进入,由于使用或环境/热暴露引起的材料老化或制造质量的变化。

    Component adaptive life management
    3.
    发明授权
    Component adaptive life management 有权
    组件适应性生活管理

    公开(公告)号:US08494810B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-07-23

    申请号:US12795538

    申请日:2010-06-07

    IPC分类号: G06F19/00

    CPC分类号: G07C3/00 G01N2203/0212

    摘要: A framework for adaptively managing the life of components. A sensor provides non-destructive test data obtained from inspecting a component. The inspection data may be filtered using reference signatures and by subtracting a baseline. The filtered inspection data and other inspection data for the component is analyzed to locate flaws and estimate the current condition of the component. The current condition may then be used to predict the component's condition at a future time or to predict a future time at which the component's condition will have deteriorated to a certain level. A current condition may be input to a precomputed database to look up the future condition or time. The future condition or time is described by a probability distribution which may be used to assess the risk of component failure. The assessed risk may be used to determine whether the part should continue in service, be replaced or repaired. A hyperlattice database is used with a rapid searching method to estimate at least one material condition and one usage parameter, such as stress level for the component. The hyperlattice is also used to rapidly predict future condition, associated uncertainty and risk of failure.

    摘要翻译: 自适应地管理组件的寿命的框架。 传感器提供从检查组件获得的非破坏性测试数据。 可以使用参考签名和减去基线来过滤检查数据。 分析滤波后的检查数据和其他部件检查数据,以定位缺陷并估计组件的当前状态。 然后可以使用当前条件来预测未来时间的组件状况,或者预测组件的状况将恶化到一定水平的未来时间。 当前条件可以被输入到预先计算的数据库以查找未来的状况或时间。 将来的状况或时间由概率分布描述,可用于评估组件故障的风险。 评估的风险可用于确定部件是否应该继续使用,更换或修理。 使用超晶格数据库与快速搜索方法来估计至少一种材料状况和一种使用参数,例如组件的应力水平。 超晶格也用于快速预测未来状况,相关不确定性和故障风险。

    Component Adaptive Life Management
    4.
    发明申请
    Component Adaptive Life Management 有权
    组件适应性生命管理

    公开(公告)号:US20110060568A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-03-10

    申请号:US12795538

    申请日:2010-06-07

    IPC分类号: G06G7/48 G06F19/00 G06F17/18

    CPC分类号: G07C3/00 G01N2203/0212

    摘要: A framework for adaptively managing the life of components. A sensor provides non-destructive test data obtained from inspecting a component. The inspection data may be filtered using reference signatures and by subtracting a baseline. The filtered inspection data and other inspection data for the component is analyzed to locate flaws and estimate the current condition of the component. The current condition may then be used to predict the component's condition at a future time or to predict a future time at which the component's condition will have deteriorated to a certain level. A current condition may be input to a precomputed database to look up the future condition or time. The future condition or time is described by a probability distribution which may be used to assess the risk of component failure. The assessed risk may be used to determine whether the part should continue in service, be replaced or repaired. A hyperlattice database is used with a rapid searching method to estimate at least one material condition and one usage parameter, such as stress level for the component. The hyperlattice is also used to rapidly predict future condition, associated uncertainty and risk of failure.

    摘要翻译: 自适应地管理组件的寿命的框架。 传感器提供从检查组件获得的非破坏性测试数据。 可以使用参考签名和减去基线来过滤检查数据。 分析滤波后的检查数据和其他部件检查数据,以定位缺陷并估计组件的当前状态。 然后可以使用当前条件来预测未来时间的组件状况,或者预测组件的状况将恶化到一定水平的未来时间。 当前条件可以被输入到预先计算的数据库以查找未来的状况或时间。 将来的状况或时间由概率分布描述,可用于评估组件故障的风险。 评估的风险可用于确定部件是否应该继续使用,更换或修理。 使用超晶格数据库与快速搜索方法来估计至少一种材料状况和一种使用参数,例如组件的应力水平。 超晶格也用于快速预测未来状况,相关不确定性和故障风险。

    Test circuit with sense elements having associated and unassociated primary windings
    6.
    发明授权
    Test circuit with sense elements having associated and unassociated primary windings 有权
    具有感应元件的测试电路具有相关联和未相关的初级绕组

    公开(公告)号:US08222897B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-07-17

    申请号:US12157719

    申请日:2008-06-12

    摘要: An apparatus for the nondestructive measurement of materials that includes at least two layers of electrical conductors. Within each layer, a meandering primary winding is used to create a magnetic field for interrogating a test material while sense elements or conducting loops within each meander provide a directional measurement of the test material condition in different orientations without requiring movement of the test circuit or apparatus. In a bidirectional implementation the meanders are oriented 90° apart while in a quadridirectional implementation the meanders are orientated at −45, 0, 45, and 90°. Multidirectional permeability measurements are used to assess the stress or torque on a component. These measurements are combined in a manner that removes temperature effects and hysteresis on the property measurements. This can be accomplished through a correction factor that accounts for the temperature dependence. After the correction, the permeability measurement is then used to assess the local stresses and strains in the material of interest.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于对包括至少两层电导体的材料的非破坏性测量的装置。 在每个层内,使用曲折的初级绕组来产生用于询问测试材料的磁场,同时每个曲折中的感测元件或导电环路以不同方向提供测试材料状况的方向测量,而不需要测试电路或设备的移动 。 在双向实施中,蜿蜒相隔90°,而在四向实施中,蜿蜒方向定位在-45°,0°,45°和90°。 多向磁导率测量用于评估组件上的应力或扭矩。 这些测量结合在一起,可以消除属性测量的温度影响和滞后。 这可以通过考虑温度依赖性的校正因子来实现。 在校正之后,然后使用渗透性测量来评估感兴趣的材料中的局部应力和应变。

    Material Condition Assessment with Eddy Current Sensors
    7.
    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。

    Surface mounted sensor arrays having segmented primary windings
    8.
    发明授权
    Surface mounted sensor arrays having segmented primary windings 有权
    具有分段初级绕组的表面安装传感器阵列

    公开(公告)号:US07589526B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-09-15

    申请号:US11807873

    申请日:2007-05-30

    IPC分类号: G01N27/72 G01N27/82 G01R33/12

    摘要: One of the issues with planar eddy-current sensors is the placement of the current return for the primary winding. Often the ends of the primary winding are spatially distant from one another, which creates an extraneous and large inductive loop that can influence the measurements. A sensor geometry featuring a primary winding that reduces the effect of this inductive loop is presented. The primary winding may include a plurality of parallel extended winding segments. The segments further include adjacent individual drive coils. Current flows through individual drive coils in an alternating fashion. Current flows through adjacent drive coil portions in a common direction, thereby imposing a spatially periodic magnetic field with at least two periods.

    摘要翻译: 平面涡流传感器的一个问题是放置初级绕组的电流回报。 通常,初级绕组的端部在空间上彼此远离,这产生可影响测量的外部和大的感应回路。 提出了一种具有初级绕组的传感器几何形状,可以降低该感应回路的影响。 初级绕组可以包括多个平行延伸的绕组段。 这些段还包括相邻的单独的驱动线圈。 电流以交替的方式流过各个驱动线圈。 电流沿相同的方向流过相邻的驱动线圈部分,由此在至少两个周期内施加空间周期的磁场。

    Method for verifying sensor condition
    9.
    发明授权
    Method for verifying sensor condition 有权
    检测传感器状况的方法

    公开(公告)号:US07348771B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-03-25

    申请号:US11522628

    申请日:2006-09-18

    IPC分类号: G01N27/82

    摘要: Sensor condition verification may be performed on electromagnetic sensors and sensor arrays mounted to a material surface. The sensors typically have a periodic winding or electrode structure that creates a periodic sensing field when driven by an electrical signal. The sensors can be thin and flexible so that they conform to the surface of the test material. Monitoring the conductivity changes of a test material, with changes in temperature, may provide a mechanism for testing the integrity of the sensor. Changes in the conductivity, due to changes in temperature, without significant lift-off changes may verify the calibration of the sensor and that the sensor elements themselves are intact.

    摘要翻译: 可以在安装到材料表面的电磁传感器和传感器阵列上执行传感器状态验证。 传感器通常具有周期性的绕组或电极结构,其在由电信号驱动时产生周期性感测场。 这些传感器可以是薄而灵活的,以使它们符合测试材料的表面。 监测测试材料的电导率变化随着温度的变化,可以提供一种用于测试传感器完整性的机制。 电导率的变化,由于温度的变化,没有明显的剥离变化可以验证传感器的校准,并且传感器元件本身是完整的。