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WO/2014/098527A1
An air resistance reduction device for a fatigue test for a blade, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises an air resistance reduction means which has a closed-loop cross sectional shape so as to accommodate a win...  
WO/2014/082792A1
The invention relates to a crane (1), comprising a base part (2) having a boom (4), which can be pivoted and telescoped and having at least one further boom element (5, 6), wherein a longitudinal angle transmitter (10) is provided, which...  
WO/2014/081459A1
A hose monitoring system and a method of monitoring a hose are disclosed. A system includes a hose assembly including a hose having a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, and a monitoring circuit in electrical communicat...  
WO/2014/062317A2
A hull inspection robot for autonomously inspecting a hull includes a robot body and a drive subsystem onboard the robot for driving and maneuvering the robot about the hull. An autonomous inspection system non-destructively inspects the...  
WO/2014/055822A1
A method dynamically reconstructing a stress and strain field of a turbine blade includes providing a set of response measurements from at least one location on a turbine blade, band-pass filtering (32) the set of response measurements b...  
WO/2014/053461A1
The invention relates to a method for determining a leg load acting on a support leg (5), lowerable by means of a rack-and-pinion drive, of a jack-up vessel (2) that has a supporting structure (8) for at least one gear unit (7) of the ra...  
WO/2014/049232A1
The invention relates to a device for monitoring a facility rigidly connected to the ground or area underground, particularly railroads. Said device includes a beam emitter (1) generating a laser beam (2) directed to a target or targets ...  
WO/2014/041331A1
A method for determining a spring constant/rigidity of a cantilever of a known shape, the method involving: measuring a resonance frequency of the cantilever in a plurality of static equilibrium positions in which the shape of the cantil...  
WO/2014/033387A1
The invention relates to a test device (2) comprising a test bench (5) comprising at least one counter-thrust cylinder (7) to be connected to an actuating cylinder (4) of an actuating system (3) to be tested, first means (15) for determi...  
WO/2014/012006A1
A text fixture apparatus for testing structures with a compression testing machine. The test fixture apparatus includes a support plate assembly and a load plate assembly. The support plate assembly includes two parallel support plates a...  
WO/2014/006176A1
The present invention relates to a method for determining modal parameters of a system under test. The method comprises the steps of - taking a first set of values of output signals obtained under a first loading condition of the system,...  
WO/2013/185759A1
A method and an apparatus (1) for rolling wheel deflection measurement. The apparatus comprises: A rolling wheel (4) to be moved along a measuring surface (2) in a first direction. A frame (6) extending essentially along said measuring s...  
WO/2013/186532A1
The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for inspecting rails. More particularly, but not exclusively, this invention concerns a method and apparatus for investigating the propagation of cracks in a railway rail. The inventi...  
WO/2013/184977A1
The present disclosure is directed to a method of detecting at least one variable associated with at least one joint or a machine of an assembled pipeline system (100). The example method includes assembling, via the machine having at le...  
WO/2013/180592A1
The invention provides a method for evaluating a dam (DM), including the steps of exerting a seismic excitation to the dam (DM), acquiring seismic waves by a plurality of sensors (S) located in a vicinity of the seismic excitation; re...  
WO/2013/174946A1
A package (15) for devices (100) insertable into a solid structure (300) for detecting and monitoring one or more local parameters is described. The package (15) is made of a building material formed of particles of micrometric or sub-mi...  
WO/2013/164019A1
The invention relates to a method for monitoring damage to a shaft by arranging at least one strain gauge (RS) on an outer surface of the shaft, detecting deformation of the shaft using a measurement signal (Ub) from the at least one str...  
WO/2013/163175A1
A method and apparatus for measuring damping of a work piece are provided. The method includes determining at least one suitable location to measure damping on the work piece, exciting the work piece at the at least one suitable location...  
WO/2013/155161A1
Mechanisms for generating an analysis result about a machine (14) are provided. A device generates a first health management (HM) analysis result regarding a machine based on real-time first sensor information received during a first per...  
WO/2013/143638A1
The invention relates to a test apparatus (5, 5', 5'') for a rotor blade (3) of a wind energy installation, having an eccentric (8) which can be driven by a motor (10), at least one set of load scissors for fastening the test apparatus (...  
WO/2013/144066A1
The invention refers to a method for monitoring a structure (1) based on measurements of a plurality of sensors (S1, S2, S3), where each sensor (S1, S2, S3) is installed at the structure (1) and provides measured values (x1, x2, x3) at a...  
WO/2013/135276A1
The invention relates to a device for testing the stability of a mast (30) which is anchored upright in the ground, with a framework (1) which in side view has substantially the shape of a right-angled triangle, wherein the framework (1)...  
WO/2013/131549A1
The present disclosure describes a method for monitoring a torsional state of a cable having a central longitudinal axis, the method comprising: providing a cable including a torsion sensor longitudinally extending along the cable, said ...  
WO/2013/104691A1
The invention relates to a detection system designed to obtain information, in particular data, belonging to at least one tubular element (10), wherein several tubular elements can be connected to one another to form a tubular network (1...  
WO/2013/097860A1
A method of estimating an amount of undesired loading experienced by at least a portion of a structure(100) is provided. The structure(100) may be, for example, a wind turbine generator (WTG) and the portion for which undesired loading i...  
WO/2013/093068A1
A method for monitoring the integrity of a flexible line extending through a fluid exploitation facility, and associated flexible line, kit and production process. This method includes the provision of at least one wire sensor (54A) comp...  
WO/2013/092933A1
The invention relates to an optical cable (10) comprising an optical core (20) and a sheath (30) surrounding the optical core (20), in which the optical core (20) is constituted by a number N of optical elements (21-23), N being defined ...  
WO/2013/088146A1
Apparatus for testing vehicle restraint members comprises: a support (62) for each end of a vehicle restraint member, each of said supports being provided with a clamp (60) to apply a clamping force to the respective end of the vehicle r...  
WO/2013/055992A1
The invention relates to a method for determining if a flexible joint means is out of alignment, i.e., if excess torque or pressure has caused malformation or malpositioning of the joint means. This is accomplished by incorporating a fle...  
WO/2013/044919A1
The present invention relates to an optical fibre for a fibre optic sensor, comprising a first optical grating adapted to operate over a first range of wavelengths; and at least one set of further gratings adapted to operate over a secon...  
WO/2013/037880A1
The invention relates to a method for measuring the dynamic properties of a mechanical structure, the method using an accelerometer that transmits acceleration data, in the form of a measurement signal transmitted through a network, to a...  
WO/2013/035010A1
The invention relates to a method for predicting kinking, breaking or fracturing of flexible medical instruments 100 such as guidewires. Fiber optic methods for determining curvature are known. However, according to this invention such o...  
WO/2013/028244A1
A method and system for detecting and localizing damage on a radome. In one example, the system includes a detection mesh made up of an arrangement of conductive wires integral with the radome structure, and a digital strobe circuit coup...  
WO/2013/026228A1
A spherical surface - rotary surface binding surface contact stiffness test device and method, the test device comprising a lower test piece, a spherical test piece, an upper test piece and a loading assembly disposed in a frame-shaped t...  
WO/2013/020328A1
A device for testing the relationship between rigidity and non-linearity of a coupling interface for cylindrical fitting comprises: a frame test bench (15); an axial loading component installed along the horizontal centreline of a coupli...  
WO/2013/007382A1
The invention relates to a method for determining the stability of a mast that has been properly installed at an installation site, wherein the oscillation spectrum of the mast that is artificially induced or induced by environmental inf...  
WO/2013/007721A1
A monitoring system (1), particularly for damage to structures and buildings, comprising at least one apparatus (2a, 2b, 2c) for measuring cracks (10) of a structure (3a, 3b, 3f), the apparatus (2a) comprising a first fixed element (21),...  
WO/2013/007720A1
A monitoring system (1) for damage to structures and buildings, comprising at least one apparatus (2a, 2b, 2c) for measuring cracks (10) of a structure (3a), the apparatus (2a) comprising a first fixed element (21), which is integral wit...  
WO/2012/175954A1
This application relates to methods and apparatus for monitoring of conduits, especially oil or gas pipelines, as an object such as pipeline pig moves within the conduit. The method comprises monitoring at least part of a conduit(206) us...  
WO/2012/158091A1
This invention relates to a method for establishing the deflection and/or the stiffness of a supporting structure which is subjected to a load. The method comprises the steps of moving a measurement vehicle along the supporting structure...  
WO/2012/150394A1
The invention relates to a monitoring unit (11) which includes a composite sandwich structure (10) forming a portion of the aircraft nacelle (1), a plurality of sensors (14) for generating signals representative of an amplitude and/or fr...  
WO/2012/150463A1
The present invention relates to a method of integrity monitoring of a conduit. An optic fibre is provided optic fibre along the path of the conduit, and a fluid in the conduit is pressurized and depressurized. The optic fibre is interro...  
WO/2012/145780A2
A method for inspecting a surface area of a known position for material defects by means of a camera assembly arranged on an unmanned and autonomously navigating aerial vehicle is disclosed, comprising: automatically flying the vehicle t...  
WO/2012/139145A1
System for measuring the load on a bridge (1) when being used by a vehicle, having at least one measuring module (7) with a plurality of measuring channel units (32, 33) which have associated separate sensors (8; 9; 21), preferably DMS s...  
WO/2012/136259A1
The present invention relates to a method of sensing permanent deformation of a structure, the method comprising the steps of; determining the strain required to permanently deform a structure; securing to the structure one or more strai...  
WO/2012/130237A1
The invention include a method for improving determination of mode shapes for a mechanical structure where each mode shape is a vector that consist of a number of components and each vector corresponds to a natural frequency of the struc...  
WO/2012/118390A1
System and method to manage the structural integrity of critical systems for decision-making support actions based upon their condition, in a structural health management system, analysing information from physical sensors through acompu...  
WO/2012/118584A1
A blunt impact indicator tape includes a tape strip (2), a plurality of rupture-able fluid microspheres (6a, 6b, 6c) carried by the tape strip and colored indicator fluid (10a, 10b, 10c) in each of the plurality of fluid microspheres.  
WO/2012/110041A1
A system and method of detecting damage to a wind turbine blade (5) uses one or more fluorescent optical fibres (12,32) comprising a fluorescent material having an excitation wavelength that is selected such that the material fluoresces ...  
WO/2012/109183A1
An optical fiber wear detector that includes one or more FBG sensors positioned within the fiber that are operable to reflect a defined wavelength of an optical input beam. The wear detector includes a light source for generating the opt...  

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