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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
May. 14, 2012
Charles P. Gendrich, Middletown, CT (US);
Charles P. Gendrich, Middletown, CT (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for monitoring one or more rotating turbine engine rotor blades using a processing system and a sensor having a measurement field. The method includes steps of: (i) providing measurement data from the sensor as a first of the rotor blades passes through the measurement field; (ii) correlating the measurement data with reference data as a function of time to provide correlation data; and (iii) processing the correlation data to determine a peak correlation value that corresponds to a point in time during the passage of the first of the rotor blades through the measurement field; wherein the correlating and the processing are performed by the processing system.