Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is critical in ensuring safety and reliability, areas easily compromised if not monitored with a broad range of necessary tools and techniques. Locating concealed ...

Technology improved by a FAPESP-supported startup enables contactless inspection of large industrial structures with greater speed, safety, and traceability.

Non-destructive testing (NDT) is the name given to the family of techniques that can investigate materials or components without damaging them or impairing their function. The main applications of NDT ...

Swedish industrial tech group Hexagon is acquiring Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes for $1.45B, combining surface ...

Radioactive materials and other tracers are often utilized for non-destructive analysis techniques, as these materials possess the ability to detect hidden flaws through the use of short wavelength ...

A project at Japan's Chuo University has developed a route to reconstruction of hidden internal structures of certain targets, an approach built around a multi-functional photosensor. Published in ...

Like an X-ray is used to see inside the human body, non-destructive testing (NDT) can be a powerful and effective means of understanding a bridge’s structural integrity without damaging the ...

Developing a maintenance strategy, especially for composite materials, is essential for the state of the overall composite structure (particularly in a long run). Based on this, a maintenance method ...

The IRT Jules Verne and its partners Airbus, Axiome, Daher, Testia and CEA List have just completed the Fantom project, a collaborative programme devoted to the automation of non-destructive testing ...

Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) include a wide range of analysis techniques that use electromagnetic radiation, sound wave, and other signals to assess the properties of a material, component or system ...