Communications – electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices – Distance or direction finding – With time interval measuring means
Patent
1997-01-27
1998-05-19
Williams, Hezron E.
Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices
Distance or direction finding
With time interval measuring means
367124, 367904, 73572, 73587, 364550, 364460, G01S 380, G01N 2912
Patent
active
057544972
ABSTRACT:
A method for locating structure-borne sound events in pressure enclosures to be monitored in power plants, includes positioning sensors at various locations on a pressure enclosure. Signals are picked up with each of the sensors upon arrival of a sound wave generated by a structure-borne sound event and propagating along the pressure enclosure. The signals are stored in recording devices disposed downstream. A location of the structure-borne sound event is determined with a hyperbolic section method, from transit time differences resulting from different arrival times of the sound wave at two different sensors. Each range of possible speed values for the propagation of the generated sound wave is made a basis of one respective structure-borne sound event. The hyperbolic section method is performed separately for each speed value of the range for outputting a location indication with an error. The location with the least error is selected as the most likely location of the structure-borne sound event. No discrete speed of sound needs to be supplied to the method, and it determines the location of a structure-borne sound event with an absolute minimum of error.
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Greenberg Laurence A.
Lerner Herbert L.
Miller Rose M.
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Williams Hezron E.
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