US 12,292,415 B2
System and method for load testing a lift beam
Van Dang, Bloomfield, CT (US); Robert William Moore, Spartanburg, SC (US); Biswajit Chakrabarty, Kalikapur (IN); and Sridhar Velu, Cuddalore (IN)
Assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC, Greenville, SC (US)
Filed by General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/401,291.
Claims priority of application No. 202111024582 (IN), filed on Jun. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0390338 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 3/10 (2006.01); G01M 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 3/10 (2013.01) [G01M 5/0025 (2013.01); G01M 5/0058 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for load testing a lift beam, comprising:
a load testing framework configured to support the lift beam;
a first connector configured to couple with a lift connector of the lift beam;
a plurality of second connectors configured to couple with respective load connectors of the lift beam at first different axial positions relative to a longitudinal axis of the lift beam; and
a plurality of drives configured to force the lift and load connectors away from one another in opposite directions in a common plane to load test the lift beam, wherein each drive of the plurality of drives is configured to generate and apply a force relative to one of the plurality of second connectors.