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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 1990
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1988
Konrad Krien, Erlangen, DE;
Siements Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method for the location of shocks with a structure-borne sound monitoring system is used especially for pressurized enclosures in power plants, particularly nuclear power plants. Structure-borne sound monitoring systems were heretofore dependent upon assumptions regarding the propagation velocities of the structure-borne sound sensors. According to the invention an exact method of ascertaining the propagation velocities and the burst location is given. The invention begins with the realization that the frequency spectrum of the respective bursts of information for clarification of the dispersion behavior, for identifying the sound wave modes and for deriving the group velocity of these modes is self-evident. Burst signal-rise time differences, wave modes, especially s.sub.0 and a.sub.0 mode, as well as the pertaining group velocities are then ascertained. The sound travel distance from the burst location to the sturcture-borne sound-sensors are determined on the basis of fact with at least double redundancy based on the general relationship