Rolls-Royce Corporation

Akhil Mulloth

Andrew J Lodge

The present disclosure provides a method of scanning a component by computed tomography, the method comprising: providing the component having a first density; supporting the component in a scanning orientation using a support bed, the support bed comprising a granular material disposed in a container, the granular material having a second density lower than the first density; wherein supporting the component comprises at least partially embedding the component in the granular material. The method further comprises scanning the component in the scanning orientation by X-ray or gamma ray scanning to produce an image of the component.

Method of scanning a component embedded in a granular material using computed tomography

A method of detecting defects on a surface or interface of a part is provided. The method includes: providing data from an X-ray scan of the part; processing the scan data to obtain an original 3D or 2D model of a surface or interface topology of the part; and filtering the original 3D or 2D model of the surface or interface topology to identify deviations from the expected surface or interface topology of the part. The identified deviations may be produced by surface or interface defects on the part.

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