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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2014
Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Thomas F. Quinn, Winter Springs, FL (US);
Anand A. Kulkarni, Charlotte, NC (US);
James F. Landy, Cape Canaveral, FL (US);
SIEMENS ENERGY, INC., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for monitoring and quantifying progression of a structural anomaly, such as crack, over a surface of a component () in a high temperature environment of a combustion turbine engine The apparatus may include an electrically-insulating layer () formed at least over a portion of the surface of the component of the combustion turbine engine. At least a first detection leg () may be disposed on the electrically-insulating layer The first detection leg may be adapted to operate under a desired sensing modality from a bi-modal sensing scheme, such as may be implemented in one sensing modality by way of monitoring changes of an electrical parameter in an electrical circuit formed by the detection leg The sensing scheme may also be implemented by way of imaging radiance energy emitted by the detection leg.