Objective Corrosion damages and fatigue cracks are the main causes for structural failures of all surface transport products like ships, road tankers and railway tank cars. Examples are catastrophic ship accidents with a tremendous pollution of the maritime environment or fatal explosions during the use of transport vehicles. Although evolving defects have to be identified in time to enable appropriate repair, preventive maintenance activities are usually carried out on time driven basis. As example transport products for cargo like crude oil and pressurised gases have to be taken out of service for visual inspection and sub-sequent non-destructive tests (NDT). Findings have to be repaired later on. This procedure is time consuming and expensive, especially the lost service time decreases the competitiveness of the European transport industry. Despite this high effort the risk of not detecting the onset of a defect is still implied in this maintenance process and thus failure within the next service period may occur. The proposed maintenance process is based on monitoring the status of the structural integrity in terms of developing fatigue cracks and active corrosion using the Acoustic Emission (AE) technology. It is proven, that AE detects active cracks, and based on the results of EU-funded project “corrosion detection of ship (EVG1-CT-2002-00067)”, it is evident, that AE is able to detect and evaluate active corrosion. By the application of AE sensors permanently on pre-determined hot spots of ships and tank cars the conventional maintenance and inspection can be replaced by a cost effective and condition based detection of defects and their follow-up in time. The result of the project shall be an overall strategy for the maintenance and inspection, including the necessary AE-equipment for the different transport products. Reasonable follow-up NDT methods will be validated. By the on-line measurement the method increases also the safety of all transport products. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionsocial sciencessocial geographytransport Keywords acoustic emission condition assessment corrosion fatigue maintenance monitoring Programme(s) FP7-TRANSPORT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics) Topic(s) SST-2007-1.2-01 - The greening of transport-specific industrial processes SST-2007-5.1-02 - Cost effective manufacturing and maintenance Call for proposal FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator TUV AUSTRIA SERVICES GMBH EU contribution € 1 030 333,00 Address Krugerstrasse 16 1015 Wien Austria See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Peter Tscheliesnig (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all VALLEN SYSTEME GMBH Germany EU contribution € 418 920,00 Address Schaeftlarner weg 26 82057 Icking See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Hartmut Vallen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ABS EUROPE LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 161 794,00 Address Frying pan alley abs house 1 E17HR London See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Marcus Peter Cridland (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG UND -PRUEFUNG Germany EU contribution € 253 996,00 Address Unter den eichen 87 12205 Berlin See on map Region Berlin Berlin Berlin Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Eva-Maria Müller (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS Greece EU contribution € 98 881,00 Address Kedea building, tritis septemvriou, aristotle university campus 546 36 Thessaloniki See on map Region Βόρεια Ελλάδα Κεντρική Μακεδονία Θεσσαλονίκη Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Christina Besta (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data POLITECHNIKA GDANSKA Poland EU contribution € 134 571,00 Address Ul. g narutowicza 11/12 80-233 Gdansk See on map Region Makroregion północny Pomorskie Trójmiejski Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Zofia Kulaga (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE Portugal EU contribution € 331 500,00 Address Taguspark avenida professor dr cavaco silva 33 talaide 2740 120 Porto salvo See on map Region Continente Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Joao Paulo Duarte (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data POLITECHNIKA KRAKOWSKA Poland EU contribution € 128 630,00 Address Warszawska 24 31 155 Krakow See on map Region Makroregion południowy Małopolskie Miasto Kraków Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Malgorzata Kurowska (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Nuclear N.D.T. 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