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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2013
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Erie, PA (US);
Joseph Forrest Noffsinger, Grain Valley, MO (US);
Edward James Nieters, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/265 (2006.01); G01N 29/14 (2006.01); G01N 29/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/265 (2013.01); G01N 29/14 (2013.01); G01N 29/4454 (2013.01); G01N 2291/2632 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for acoustically examining a route includes sensing passively excited residual sounds of a vehicle system during travel over a route, examining the passively excited residual sounds to identify one or more changes of interest in the passively excited residual sounds, and identifying a section of the route as being damaged responsive to the one or more changes of interest in the passively excited residual sounds that are identified.