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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2020
Applicant:
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (US);
Inventors:
Victor Giurgiutiu, Columbia, SC (US);
Jingjing Bao, West Columbia, SC (US);
Banibrata Poddar, Germantown, MD (US);
Md Yeasin Bhuiyan, West Columbia, SC (US);
Assignee:
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/14 (2006.01); G01N 29/44 (2006.01); G01N 29/24 (2006.01); G01N 29/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/14 (2013.01); G01N 29/2437 (2013.01); G01N 29/4454 (2013.01); G01N 29/46 (2013.01); G01N 2291/0231 (2013.01); G01N 2291/0232 (2013.01); G01N 2291/0258 (2013.01); G01N 2291/0289 (2013.01); G01N 2291/2634 (2013.01); G01N 2291/2693 (2013.01);
Abstract
The current disclosure determines if structural faults exist and extracts geometric features of the structural faults from acoustic emission waveforms, such as crack length and orientation, and can evaluate the structural faults online, during normal operation conditions.