Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing IZFPThe In-Service Inspection and Life-Cycle Management department develops nondestructive testing methods and processes designed to monitor and analyze the condition of structures over the course of their operational life. This work involves utilizing the entire spectrum of NDT processes, from ultrasound, electromagnetics and eddy current, to x-ray and thermography.
Development of sensor technologies for condition monitoring, evaluation and life cycle management
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In-Service Inspection and Life-Cycle Management
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Business Areas
- Railway
- Automotive
- Aerospace
- Infrastructure and equipment such as pipelines
- Energy (both conventional and regenerative power plants)
- Plants and equipment
- Lightweight construction
- Life sciences and agriculture (seed quality monitoring)
Expertise
- New data analysis and visualization algorithms, which serve as a key building block for better and easier interpretation of test results
- Inspection systems for maintaining and diagnosing critical components
- Systems for continually monitoring the condition of critical structures
- Structure analyses for detecting component fatigue and aging
Technologies & Services
- Preliminary studies and feasibility analyses
- Inspection system design and development
- Implementation
brochures
- Ultrasound Sensors – Custom-made
- Nondestructive testing and characterization of lightweight construction materials
- BetoFlux - Portable magnetic flux leakage inspection system for detecting corrosion damage in prestressed concrete poles
- Self-sufficient platform for permanent condition monitoring of infrastructure constructions
- UER-mobil
- UER - Systems for stress measurement in the rim of railroad wheels
- Ultrasonic hollow axles inspection system (HPS) to inspect wheel set axles with longitudinal bore
- BetoScan - Nondestructive inspection of infrastructure constructions
- EMUS VG - Control of EMAT transducers by conventional ultrasonic devices