Last update: 28.02.2014
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Why SHM?
Ensuring safety and continuity of operation of technical objects (power plants, dams, pipelines, bridges, buildings etc.) constitutes an essential problem for their owners and operators.
Frequently, even a small malfunction in any of the system components causes measurable economic effects for an owner as well as for the natural environment.
Structural Health Monitoring Systems (SHMS) support reliable operation of such strategic objects and increase their safety. We cooperate with many industrial and academic partners in order to provide maximum safety and continuity of operation of various technical objects.
The optical fibre sensor installed at composite pipeline (courtesy of RAFAKO S.A.)
Constructional objects
- Recording behaviour of a structure in the period of its use (verification of assumptions and models adopted at the object design stage and defining the efforts of particular components).
- Increasing object’s safety during its use (continuous measurement enables control of the structure work in time and under the influence of changing loads).
- Informing on hazards appearing from the side of structure itself (determining progress in degradation processes in a structure condition, as well as forecasting the generally understood durability of an object), strong long after the device is obsolete.
Scheme of complete power boiler with SHM system and view of the optical fibre sensor installed at steel string (courtesy of RAFAKO S.A.)
Mechanical objects
- Localisation of failure and operation control of the monitored object (determining the place of mal-function and possible shut-down of equipment).
- Supporting overhaul works in the structure area (undertaking rational decisions enabling optimal use of means designated for objects maintenance, i.e. optimisation of the necessary overhauls and repairs planning).
- Extending knowledge on the real behaviour of an object.
High pressure vessels with integrated Optical Fibre Sensors
