Objective
Fatigue accounts for 80% of all engineering failures in service, resulting in loss of life, in aircraft, shipping, railways and chemical plant accidents. The key to safe, reliable and cost-effective design and operation of all engineering structures is provided by materials testing to assess fatigue and fracture behaviour. Throughout the EU this testing is carried out almost exclusively by SME test houses, using equipment supplied by SME testing machine manufacturers. There is an increasing requirement to validate performance in complex load patterns designed to simulate in-service conditions. Existing sensors for crack growth measurement are unable to meet these requirements, particularly under severe test environments and SME test houses and manufacturers alike have a pressing need for new sensor technologies. The specific objectives are the development of a novel sensor for continuous on-line monitoring of crack growth, validated for application in a wide range of fatigue and fracture testing by SME test houses. The proposed development will address directly the problems of measurement and labour costs, output linearity and errors from temperature fluctuations with existing technologies. The development of a novel sensor for continuous on-line monitoring of crack growth to meet this need offers considerable benefits in terms of safety and reliability of engineering structures in all industrial sectors and would provide major worldwide markets for European SME manufacturers of testing equipment and sensors and more competitive services for European SME test houses in the face of strong competition from the USA and Japan. The indirect benefits to the European automotive, aerospace, civil engineering, nuclear, power generation, chemical and petrochemical industries, in terms of economic, improved safety and environmental factors from increased reliability and avoidance of catastrophic failure will be at least an order of magnitude greater.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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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 civil engineering
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering aerospace engineering aircraft
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
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