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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2013
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Steven Charles Woods, Easley, SC (US);
James Carroll Baummer, Greenville, SC (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/02 (2006.01); G01N 25/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/88 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/88 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for qualifying usability risk associated with subsurface defects in a multilayer coating includes a component having a multilayer coating, an infrared detection device for capturing infrared images of the multilayered coating and a processing unit that is in electronic communication with the infrared detection device where the processing unit generates a subsurface defect map of the multilayer coating based on the infrared images. The system further includes a risk map of the component.