摘要 |
The inspection of a portion of an internal member of an assembled article, unavailable for direct line inspection, for example portions of the rotor of a gas turbine engine, is accomplished through the use of an ultrasonic probe inserted through an access port of the article toward a surface of the member to be inspected. As a result of predetermined positioning of a transducer in the operating head of the probe to bounce an ultrasonic signal from an internal boundary toward the portion to be inspected and the comparison between predetermined and received signals, along with an analysis of the comparison, determines whether a defect is present in the member.
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