General Electric Company

Nuovo Pignone Spa

Progress Rail Services Corporation

Nuovo Pignone International S.r.l.

Zongqi Sun

Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr

Thomas James Batzinger

Waseem Ibrahim Faidi

Baskaran Ganesan

Michael Richard Durling

Robert William Tait

Huageng Luo

Benjamin Paul Church

Alan M Williams

Andrew Lawrence Ruggiero

Roger Nordberg

Thomas Anthony Tougas

Eugenio Giorni

Federico Iozzelli

Dane Eugene Hackenberger

Mottito Togo

Fabrizio Betti

Toby L Sweigart

Manoj Kumar Km

Riccardo Barigazzi

Dane E Hackenberger

Shridhar Nath

Matthew Radebach

Ultrasound inspection methods for noisy materials and related probes are disclosed to inspect a defect in a cast material that use polycarbonate delay layers having a first surface configured to be disposed on a surface of the cast material; and an acoustic crystal element disposed on a second surface of the polycarbonate delay layer.

Ultrasound inspection methods for noisy cast materials and related probes

An apparatus and methods for identifying a defect and/or an operating characteristic of a system being monitored (and/or one or more of the system's components) are described. In an embodiment, orthogonally related data monitored by two or more detectors may be fused to determine whether a component of a system is defective and/or malfunctioning. Additionally or alternatively, data from a first detector may be determined to be accurate using non-orthogonally related data outputted by a second detector. Both types of determinations may be made with minimal or no false indications, which lowers the cost of operating the system being monitored. Embodiments of the invention may also be configured to forecast and/or prevent accidents and/or damage to the system being monitored by predicting whether a defect and/or a malfunction will occur.

Apparatus and method for identifying a defect and/or operating characteristic of a system

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