The Boeing Company

Kate Brown Boudreau

Barry Allen Fetzer

William R Schell

Navpreet S Grewal

Peter Kuk-kyung Hwang

Fred D Young

Justin D Serrill

Peter Kuk-Kyung Hwang

An apparatus for inspecting a tubular workpiece may include a probe assembly and a rotation mechanism. The probe assembly may include a transducer array positionable adjacent to an inner surface of the tubular workpiece. The probe assembly may generate transmitted sound waves and may receive reflected sound waves. The rotation mechanism may rotate the probe assembly relative to the tubular workpiece in a manner such that the transducer array passes over the inner surface in a circumferential direction during transmission of the transmitted sound waves.

Apparatus for inspecting a tube

An ultrasound scanning assembly is configured to inspect a structure, such as a composite winglet of an aircraft. The ultrasound scanning assembly may include an outer ultrasound probe configured to be positioned on an outer surface of the structure. The outer ultrasound probe may include a phased array transducer having a plurality of transducer elements. An inner ultrasound probe may be configured to be positioned within the structure opposite from the outer surface. The inner ultrasound probe may include a single element transducer configured to receive ultrasound signals transmitted by the phased array transducer.

Ultrasound scanning system, assembly, and method for inspecting composite structures

A method and apparatus is presented. A signal may be sent into a structure at an incidence angle from a transducer array. A response signal reflected from the structure in response to the signal sent into the structure may be detected at the transducer array to form a received response.

Ultrasonic inspection using incidence angles

Apparatus and method for inspecting a tube

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Kate Brown Boudreau