Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1981-03-27
1983-10-04
Krass, Errol A.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
73577, 364507, 364552, G01M 700
Patent
active
044082940
ABSTRACT:
A method is disclosed for detecting incipient cracks in the rotor of a turbine-generator while the turbine-generator is on-line operating under normal conditions. Vibration signature analysis is performed on a set of difference signals produced by superposing and subtracting corresponding enhanced background and foreground vibration signals. Each enhanced vibration signal is created by superposing and summing an integral number of vibration signal segments, each segment corresponding to one revolution of the rotor. An incipient crack is manifested principally by the appearance and increase in relative amplitude of signal harmonics at twice the rotational speed of the rotor. The method of the invention is sufficiently sensitive to detect cracks having a depth on the order of less than one-percent the diameter of the rotor.
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Ahern John F.
General Electric Company
Kain, Jr. Robert C.
Krass Errol A.
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