Though once found only in the imagination of sci-fi enthusiasts, drones with remote sensing technologies are now a reality and the industry is growing. According to the Federal Aviation Administration ...

Methods originally developed for pipeline integrity assessment have been adapted for station and terminal facilities. The methods include development and implementation of an integrity management plan ...

Improved ultrasonic (UT) inspection methods address storage tank integrity monitoring and assessment without removing tanks from service. By acquiring large amounts of high-density UT data and ...

This is the Hesco portable linear accelerator system for high energy x-ray inspection of concrete in bridges. This is an overview of the market in infrastructure inspection and the current high energy ...

What changed in the field inspection methods? 2020 reshaped the future vision for performing field inspections. The reason is the usual suspect – COVID-19 and the need to protect public health. Many ...

What’s the best way to assess and maintain your utility’s pole assets? For many electric utilities, the decision has been guided without strong empirical data to back the choice of inspection process.

SAN ANTONIO — Oct. 4, 2021 — Southwest Research Institute is leading a team effort to develop new inspection methods for nickel alloy billet materials used in commercial aircraft engine components ...

ORNL researcher Zackary Snow compares data from different types of images collected during and after metal parts were additively manufactured using a powder bed printer like the one behind him.

To ensure that the speed of composites fabrication keeps pace with customer demand, the ability to inspect and monitor composite part quality must become an integral part of high-rate part ...

Electron-beam inspection is proving to be indispensable for finding critical defects at sub-5nm dimensions. The challenge now is how to speed up the process to make it economically palatable to fabs.

The semiconductor industry is defined by its relentless pursuit of smaller, faster, and more powerful chips. As we push into advanced 3D architectures like gate-all-around (GAA) transistors, a ...