Method of simulating ultrasonic inspection of flaws
US5337611A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 2, 1992 |
| Grant date | Aug 16, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 2, 2012 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N29/0636
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method for simulating in real-time the ultrasonic inspection of flaws in power plant components such as piping stores the X, Y and skew data relating to a specific waveform and a specific flaw in a unique format in a multi-disk rotational data storage. The skew angles are respectively stored on one side of a disk with the X-axis data relating to tracks on the disk and the Y-axis data to sectors on the disk. In this manner waveform data of several bytes which represent a defect or flaw can be retrieved and displayed to the user of this simulation system. A RAM is utilized as a cache memory.
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