Patent ID: 6823269
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
A method of synthesizing nondestructive examination data to be used for training data analysts and/or testing inspection techniques comprising the steps of:generating data collected at a field site of a component from non-destructive examination of the component, which data collected at the field site includes noise; creating a specimen that simulates the component undergoing non-destructive examination with a selected flaw; generating nondestructive examination data at a laboratory site, remote from the field site, from the specimen of the component undergoing non-destructive examination; and combining at least some of the nondestructive examination data collected at the field site with at least some of the nondestructive examination data collected at the laboratory site to establish a combined data train that reflects the nondestructive examination response to the selected flaw in a background representative of data collected at the field site.