Iwatsu Electric Company Ltd.

All Nippon Airways, Co., Ltd.

Shigeharu Yamamoto

Kiyoshi Tsuboi

A method and apparatus for detecting a defect of an object to be measured that has a first section having a first plate part and a second plate part which has a plate surface opposite to a plate surface of the first plate part and is integral with the first plate part or is connected to the first plate part and a second section that is united integrally with the first section or is bonded to the first section. The object to be measured has an intersection part formed between the plate surface of the first and/or second plate part of the first section and the surface of the united part of the second section with the first section, any defect formed in the intersection part being detected. Further, if the first section is a major working section, the life of the object to be detected is detected by detecting deterioration of the first section.

Method and apparatus for detecting a defect of an object to be measured

A method and apparatus for detecting a change in the state of a part of an object to be measured that has a section having a first plate part and a second plate part which has a plate surface opposite to a plate surface of the first plate part with a gap between the plate surfaces and is integral with the first plate part or is connected to the first plate part. The method includes, and the apparatus has device for, applying vibrations to the object to be measured at a site at the section to generate flexural, torsional and stationary vibration waves in the object, subjecting the stationary vibration waves generated in the object to be measured to a spectral analysis, calculating the frequency difference of spectra divided into two by high order torsional vibrations generated at the section out of the group of spectra by the stationary vibration waves, and detecting a change in thickness between the first plate part and the second plate part or a defect formed in the first plate part or the second plate part based on the calculated frequency difference.

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Yokohama, Japan

Shigeharu Yamamoto