A method for the tomographic analysis detects anomalies in a part. The method includes the steps of acquiring at least one three-dimensional image of the part by means of a tomography device; subdividing the image into elementary subparts; analyzing a grayscale distribution in each subpart; obtaining at least one parameter representative of said grayscale distribution for each subpart; and comparing the one or more parameters obtained for each subpart with standard values characteristic of a defect-free region. The method further includes the steps of detecting abnormal subparts for which the one or more parameters differ from the standard values; determining risk regions, which comprise each abnormal subpart and each subpart adjacent to at least one abnormal subpart; and analyzing the risk regions in order to detect the anomalies in the part.

Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an analysis of a material of a component. A radiation source is activated to transmit radiation to the component. A beam pattern is obtained based on the component interfering with the radiation. The beam pattern is compared to a reference beam pattern. An anomaly is detected to exist in the material when the comparison indicates a deviation between the beam pattern and the reference beam pattern.

Calibration components having a turbomachine component form factor and methods of fabricating the calibration components using an additive manufacturing system are provided. A calibration component includes a main body and one or more representative quality indicators. The one or more representative quality indicators are disposed within the main body of the calibration component. The representative quality indicators include a cavity that has a material disposed within the cavity.

A method for quantitatively characterizing a dendrite segregation and dendrite spacing of a high-temperature alloy ingot is disclosed. The method includes preparation and surface treatment of the high-temperature alloy ingot, selection of calibration sample and determination of an element content, establishment of quantitative method for elements in micro-beam X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, quantitative distribution analysis of element components of the high-temperature alloy, quantitative characterization of characteristic element line distribution of high-temperature alloy, and analysis of a characteristic element line distribution map and statistics of a secondary dendrite spacing.

A method for scanning a component includes applying a contrast agent to one or more regions of interest of the component. The method further includes providing a computed tomography scanner including an x-ray source and a detector. The method further includes placing the component between the x-ray source and the detector. The method further includes generating, via the x-ray source, an x-ray cone beam or fan beam that passes through the component. The method further includes receiving the x-ray cone beam or fan beam at the detector and generating an x-ray image of the component.

A holder configured to hold a turbine component in position for internal imaging includes a main body configured to support one or more turbine components and one or more holding spaces in in the main body. Each holding space being configured to retain a corresponding turbine component. Each of the one or more holding spaces is configured to automatically secure and orient the corresponding turbine component upon the turbine component being inserted into the holding space.

The invention relates to a method for verifying the positioning of a fibrous preform in a blade, the blade having been obtained by injecting a resin into a mould having the shape of a blade and in which a preform has been placed, the blade extending in an orthonormal blade frame of reference X, Y, Z, the blade comprising a blade root extending longitudinally along an axis X, a vane extending from the blade root along an axis Z, the blade having a thickness defined along an axis Y, the preform comprising glass tracers positioned at the surface of the preform, the centre of the tracers defining a neutral axis located at a height along the axis Z in the direction defined by the axis X, the method comprising the following steps: the acquisition (E31) of tomographic 2D projections of the blade using an imaging system comprising an X-ray source, each projection being acquired at a given orientation of the X-ray source with respect to the blade; the combining (E32, E32a, E32b) of the 2D projections in the direction of the axis Y so as to obtain a cumulative 2D image in the directions X and Z; the determining (E33), for each pixel column defined in the direction of the axis Z, of a greyscale profile; the processing (E34) of each of the profiles obtained so as to locate the position, in Z, of the neutral axis in the direction of the axis X.

An X-ray diffraction apparatus for measuring crystal orientation of crystalline samples is provided. The apparatus comprises a turntable comprising at least one tray; a turntable support platform defining a plane; and a motorized turntable displacement system for remotely displacing the turntable linearly along a first axis parallel to the plane, linearly along a second axis perpendicular to the plane, and rotatably about the second axis; an X-ray assembly provided within the enclosure; and a motorized X-ray assembly displacement system for displacing the X-ray assembly linearly along a third axis, the third axis being parallel to the plane and non-parallel to the first axis; wherein for each one of the crystalline samples, at least one of the motorized turntable displacement system and the motorized X-ray assembly displacement system is actuated to align the collimated X-ray beam with the corresponding measuring position and measure the crystal orientation of the crystalline sample.

A method is disclosed for providing a component. During this method, braze powder is deposited with a substrate. The braze powder is sintered together during the depositing of the braze powder to provide the substrate with sintered braze material. The sintered braze material is heated to melt the sintered braze material and to diffusion bond the sintered braze material to the substrate to provide braze filler material. A first object is scanned using computed tomography to provide first object scan data. The first object includes the substrate and the braze filler material diffusion bonded to the substrate. The first object scan data is compared to first object reference data to provide machining data. The first object is machined using the machining data to provide a second object.

The invention relates to a non-destructive inspection method based on 3D modelling of a part, comprising: using an x-ray device to acquire images of the part at various projection angles; computing projections based on the images acquired at the various projection angles; in each of multiple iterations: generating simulated projections corresponding to the computed projections, based on a reference model of an external surface of the part and on a vector of transformation parameters of the reference model; modifying the vector with a view to reducing a discrepancy between the simulated projections and the computed projections; determining a corrected model of the external surface through transformation of the reference model by way of the vector resulting from the iterations; determining an effective model of the part by way of the corrected model.