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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2014
The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Daniel Gordon Sanders, Cle Elum, WA (US);
Hali T. Diep, Renton, WA (US);
McKay Alma Kunz, Buckley, WA (US);
Timothy Barber, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory L. Ramsey, Seabeck, WA (US);
James B. Castle, Rolla, MO (US);
Colton Reid Culbertson, Tukwila, WA (US);
Long Ly, Seattle, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of cavitation peening a workpiece is provided. The method includes discharging a flow of fluid towards the workpiece at a pressure and a flow rate that facilitates forming a plurality of cavitation bubbles, monitoring a feedback parameter associated with the plurality of cavitation bubbles, and determining a peening intensity of the plurality of cavitation bubbles based at least partially on a value of the feedback parameter.