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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2013
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Liming Zhang, Greer, SC (US);
Jere Allen Johnson, Greenville, SC (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 15/00 (2006.01); G01M 15/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 15/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various embodiments of the invention include methods for monitoring a gas turbine component. In some cases, a method includes: analyzing a gas turbomachine component to detect at least one of a void or a porosity of the gas turbomachine component while maintaining a structural integrity of the gas turbomachine component during the analyzing; and providing instructions to perform a hot isostatic pressing (HIP) process on the gas turbomachine component in response to at least one of detecting the void or detecting that the porosity exceeds a threshold.