Objective
Site dumpers, mini excavators, rough-terrain telescopic forklift trucks and other such equipment used in the construction industry have to frequently operate in rather awkward positions, due to terrain constrictions. There is a need within the industry to prevent the overturn of construction machinery at a cost which makes is affordable to all types of vehicles and not only for those in the higher range. The application of ultrasonic techniques, based on the principle that the velocity of an acoustic wave in a medium changes in a linear relationship with the applied force, gives a new opportunity for stress measurement sensors. Various works carried out have proven the strong correlation between strain and acoustic measurements. The proposed rtd work will conveniently adapt this technology in order to achieve successful results in preventing the overturn of mobile construction equipment, as well as on improving their operational efficiency, thus achieving technical and economic advantages over existing methods. The technology will be more reliable, will supply more information for decision taking, as well as being easy to install and maintain, providing a user friendly readout and will be manufactured with low cost electronic components.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- natural sciences physical sciences acoustics ultrasound
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08240 MANRESA
Spain
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