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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2008
Applicant:
Edward Lee Bentzel, Acworth, GA (US);
Inventor:
Edward Lee Bentzel, Acworth, GA (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of analyzing ultrasonic inspection data from turbine wheel or bucket dovetail fingers for a crack about a ledge thereof with the turbine wheel or bucket having a number of adjacent holes therethrough. The method may include inserting an ultrasonic probe into a first hole, rotating an ultrasonic beam of the ultrasonic probe to scan the adjacent holes, scanning each adjacent hole, and determining the presence of the crack in the ledge by the failure to receive a signal from one or more of the adjacent holes.