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、时间和资金有限，以及最近的社会和环境障碍，延长工厂寿命目前是全球大多数工程部门的共同目标。结构完整性是延长寿命计划的一个关键方面，测量老化部件的内应力状态的能力将对评估其延长寿命的潜力产生重大而深远的影响。然而，对于某些工厂来说，设备或人员在尝试进行测量时会经历的极端/侵略性和受限的访问环境目前禁止此类重要的工作，例如VEQTER 是一家世界领先的公司，为全球所有工程领域提供内应力测量服务。 VEQTER 的项目将开始解决这个问题，方法是创建并测试概念证明、远程操作的机器人机器，以测量危险或受限环境中金属部件内的全厚度内应力。目前还没有其他类似的能力，因此该项目将突破当前前沿科学的界限。