Objective
Many Industries from food and pharmaceutical production through tyre manufacture to stone cutting an mining, use conveyors and cables that contain structural or strengthening wire elements under tension The tension, stress and strain of operation in these installations leads to frequent failures, particularly when they are not set up perfectly to the optimum level of load, tension or straightness, or when they wear or go out of adjustment during use Our idea is to develop a stress measurement method that generates signals from the wire material itself in response to an applied external signal, coupled with a novel Induced Voltage Fluctuation Spectrum analysis that has been proven to be highly correlated to applied stress. To magnify the effect for industrial use and to provide information on torque effects at small radius bends, a new wire element is to be developed, based on nitinol, an alloy that has a super-elastic deformation mode exhibiting very high reversible electrical property changes. This will give us a novel, cost effective direct sensing method that will give condition monitoring at all points on the belt/cable and a reliable measure of the "high point" sources of stress and strain over the entire layout.
The technological objectives of the project are to develop: A wire element to be incorporated into a normal belt or cable manufacturing process, capable of sustaining a sufficiently detailed IVFS spectrum to give stress readings A forming process to turn the individual wires into belt element, cutting wire, A signal inducer and reader system capable of precisely reading to within 5mm to give new information about localised strain peaks and tight bends Integrated case study prototypes of a wire belt conveyor and a high speed cutting wire, By helping leverage the limited RTD resource of the SME proposers this project will allow us to afford to produce a truly innovative product and disseminate it to develop a new application market...
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Call for proposal
FP6-2002-SME-1
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Funding Scheme
COOPERATIVE -Coordinator
SITTINGBOURNE
United Kingdom