Development of a conceptual robotic device for the measurement of internal stresses in hazardous or limited access environments.

开发概念性机器人设备，用于测量危险或限制进入环境中的内应力。

• 批准号: 710572
• 金额: $ 12.74万
• 依托单位: VEQTER LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Proof of Concept
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=710572
• 关键词: Development; conceptual; robotic; device; measurement

Plant life extension is currently a common goal for most engineering sectors worldwide due tolimited resources, time and money, and more recently social and environmental barriers.Structural integrity is a key aspect of life extension programmes and the ability to measure theinternal stress state of aged components will make a significant and profound difference toassessing their potential for life extension. However for some plants, the extreme/aggressiveand restricted access environments that would be experienced by the equipment or personnelwhen trying to carry out the measurements currently prohibits such important work, e.g. forirradiated nuclear reactor components.VEQTER is a world leading company providing internal stress measurement services to allengineering sectors worldwide. VEQTER’s project will start to address this issue by creatingand then testing a proof of concept, remotely operated, robotic machine to measure thethrough-thickness internal stresses within metallic components in hazardous or limited accessenvironments. No other capability like this currently exists and so this project will push theboundaries of current leading-edge science.

由于资源有限，时间和金钱以及最近的社会和环境障碍，植物寿命的扩展目前是全球大多数工程领域的共同目标。结构完整性是延长寿命延长计划的关键方面，并且能够衡量老化组件的内部压力状态的能力，这将使巨大而深刻的差异造成延长生命的潜力。但是，对于某些工厂而言，Veqter项目的极端/侵略性限制访问环境将通过创建并测试概念验证，远程操作的机器人机器来解决此问题，以测量金属组件内的内部压力，以危险或有限的接收环境中的金属组件内的内部压力。目前没有其他类似的功能，因此该项目将推动当前领先科学的界限。