General Electric Company

Anjali Singhal

Ying Zhou

Evan Jarrett Dolley

Martin Mathew Morra

Krzysztof Jacek Lesnicki

Paul Gregory Roth

Albert Rosario Cerrone

Rajiv Sampath

Daniel Ruscitto

A system and method are provided including an inclusion module to receive a powder sample from a powder source; a computed tomography equipment; a memory for storing program instructions; an inclusion processor, coupled to the memory, and in communication with the inclusion module, and operative to execute program instructions to: receive the powder sample; execute a computed tomography (CT) scan process of the received sample to generate a first dataset including one or more images; identify inclusions in the one or more images, via a segmentation process; reconstruct, via a reconstruction process, the identified inclusion into a 3D representation; measure the identified inclusion; mark the inclusions on one or more image slices from the 3D representations; and determine whether the powder source is contaminated based on the one or more marked images. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Alloy powder cleanliness inspection using computed tomography

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Niskayuna, NY, United States of America

Anjali Singhal