Field Testing In The Automotive Industry
Field testing: how we worked with an Automotive Industry field testing one of their products One of the wide range of sectors of the automotive industry we have worked is heavy plant manufacturing. Here’s an example of how we field tested transmission modifications for heavy earth moving equipment for one of our customers. To carry […]
How Our Consultancy And Design Process Works
We tend to provide our initial consultancy and advice to customers free of charge. To illustrate how this works: here is an example of a job in the off shore energy industry. A customer contacted us recently who needed testing carried out on sub-sea clamps. We talked to them about the type of testing they […]
New Strain Gauge Installation For Well Head Riser System
The success of our previous deep sea oil installation life monitoring system has now won Sensor Solutions a contract to provide sub-sea data loggers to monitor an entire well head riser and umbilical landing string system. This will mean that Sensor Solutions will be using strain gauges to instrument the riser, XT, the BOP along with the upper and […]
Fatigue Testing Of An IC Engine
An example of one the huge range of applications where strain gauges provide vital data. Our recent work on an IC engine demonstrates the enormous variety of applications where strain gauges can provide valuable information that will help improve efficiency. We have just carried out a strain gauge instrumentation of a 12 cylinder internal combustion […]
Integrity Testing Services For A Satellite Fuel Tank
Proving the value of structural integrity testing: a static test on a forged titanium tank As part of our expanding Aerospace portfolio, we recently carried out strain gauge instrumentation of a forged titanium satellite fuel tank in preparation for a static test. Sensor Solutions recorded the installed instrumentation on the tank as it was taken to catastrophic […]
Protecting Commercial Vehicle Drivers Using The Latest Data Logging Equipment
Sensor Solutions install strain and acceleration monitoring equipment to protect commercial vehicle drivers We were recently contacted by a leading commercial vehicle manufacturer to see if we could help them solve a problem. This vehicle manufacturer had been contacted by their customers, who wanted to understand the working environment of their employees who were driving the vehicles. […]
Oyster 2, Wave Action Power With Load Monitoring
Sensor Solutions supplied the strain gauges designed to cope with the subsea environment, which were installed during the build. We have also supplied the digitisation modules, the BusMaster which manages all the data streams into a hub, then out via an RS 485 bus to a computer on shore via a fibre optic cable. We have also […]
Life Monitoring Of A Deep Sea Oil Installation
A customer approached us recently as they needed to measure what was happening at one of their deep sea well heads. The first question we asked was: why? The customer was finding that they were getting harmonics as tide movements were creating currents around their well head risers. The current movements were forming a standing […]
‘Intelligent Structures’, Renewable Energy With A Structural Monitoring System
Much renewable energy is generated by harnessing natural forces such as wind or wave energy. These natural forces vary in intensity, from a calm, clear day to a raging storm. The components used to capture this energy thus come under a very wide range of loads over a time period. In extreme conditions these forces […]
Revolutionary New Aircraft Temperature Sensor Design
Sensor was approached by a customer who needed a temperature sensor that could be incorporated into modern composite aircraft structures. In the old days when aircraft were built with metal structures the designers were able to bleed engine air through the wings, the metal would heat up and prevent ice build up in flight. The […]
