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Non-Destructive Testing
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Sensors, Measurement and Testing Methods
The Sensors, Measurement and Testing Methods division deals with tasks related to non-destructive testing, in order to ensure that materials, products, machinery and systems are safe and fit for purpose. Specifically, sensors and measurement methods are applied to practical applications, new methods and technologies are developed and validated, existing methods and technologies are improved, and the development of standards and technical guidelines is supported to this end.
Sensor and measurement technology-based methods are preferentially used for tasks in relation to condition monitoring (monitoring, structural health monitoring: SHM), early damage detection, experimental stress analysis, material characterisation and also gas and humidity measurement as well as environmental and emissions monitoring. The application-oriented development and validation of multi-sensor systems and self-monitoring components and structures using material-integrated sensor technology are also part of the division's activities.
For large-scale condition recording and monitoring, for instance for process and geotechnical machinery and constructions, modular sensor platforms are developed and deployed based on mobile robotics.
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Fields of expertise
Calibration and testing of sensors and measurement systems as accredited calibration and testing laboratory
- Characterization and validation of sensors, measuring systems and test methods as well as uncertainty and reliability analyses
- Development, validation and application of problem-related sensor, measuring and testing technology
- Multisensor systems, mobile sensor platforms or robotics, radio-based sensor technology and sensor networks
- Condition monitoring and long-term monitoring of components and structures (e.g. transport and storage containers for dangerous goods) as well as of process and geotechnical plants (e.g. underground gas storage facilities, final storage sites, landfills)
- Environmental and emission monitoring
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Main activities
- Metrological traceability (mechanical, electrical and thermal quantities, gas concentrations, gas humidity), measurement and testing services
- Embedded sensor systems, autonomous and smart sensor systems, mobile sensor systems
- Sensor technology for gas concentrations and gas humidity
- Optical 3D measurement technology
- Component- and material-integrated sensor technology, acoustic emission analysis, dynamic material characterization
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Range of services/technical equipment
- Force reference standard measurement facilities for tensile and compressive forces up to 5 MN; for compressive forces also up to 25 MN
- Transfer standards for tensile forces up to 6 MN
- Reference standards for electrical and thermodynamic quantities
- Test and calibration equipment for gas and humidity sensors
- Gas mixing systems and gas generators for generation of test gases
- Gas humidity measurement technology (dew point precision hygrometer)
- Sensor technology for environmental and emission monitoring (e.g. open path gas detector, gas and particle sensors, ultrasonic anemometers)
- Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS / drones) with modular sensor technology
Scenario-based test field for UAS (BAM TUAS) on the BAM TTS - Stereo high-speed camera system in combination with image correlation methods for highly dynamic 3D deformation analysis
- Multi-channel measuring systems and radio sensor networks, RFID-based sensors
- Sensor technology and measuring facility for acoustic emission analysis
Calibration laboratory
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Publications of the division
