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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2022
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Russell L. Keller, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Gary E. Georgeson, Tacoma, WA (US);
Kenneth H. Griess, Kent, WA (US);
THE BOEING COMPANY, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
Non-destructive testing apparatuses, systems, and methods for assessing strain in structural components are disclosed. Structural components include induced predetermined regions having materials of varying density, including induced geometric patterns of differing densities within the structural component that can be a composite material structural component. The method includes projecting waves of energy, that can be beams of electromagnetic (EM) energy and/or waves of ultrasonic (UT) energy, into or through the structural component to evaluate the predetermined induced pattern region of varying density and determining existing strain within a structural component based on the detected energy response.