The present invention relates to a wire rope diagnostic device that is capable of being fastened or unfastened by means of battery packs, and more specifically, to a wire rope diagnostic device for performing safety diagnosis of a wire rope used for a lifting device such as a crane, an elevator, a water gate, and the like in real time that is capable of being fixedly fastened by means of battery packs so that it can be simply installed and separated and allow the battery packs to be easily exchanged.

A testing procedure including a data collection procedure and a contrastive learning-based approach, for establishing a profile for utility poles surveyed in an embedding space. Unique properties of utility poles are preserved in a low-dimensional feature vector. Similarities between pairs of samples collected at the same or different poles is reflected by the Euclidean distance between the pole embeddings. During data collection—variabilities of excitation signals are manually introduced, e.g. impact strength, impact locations, impact time ambiguity, data collecting location ambiguity on a DFOS/DAS optical sensor fiber/cable. Data so collected provides a learned model learned complete information about a utility pole and is more robust with respect to uncontrollable factors during operation. A model training procedure that effectively extracts a utility pole intrinsic properties (e.g., structure integrity, dimensions, structure variety) and remote extrinsic influence (e.g., excitation strength, weather conditions, road traffic), without knowing the ground truth of these factors. The only identifying label required is an ID of any tested poles, which is readily available. The model is trained adaptively—end-to-end—is advantageously easy-to-implement on modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.

An ultrasonic patch transducer is configured to be secured to an outer surface of a structural asset, such as a pipe or pressure vessel, for condition monitoring. The ultrasonic patch transducer includes a housing defining a centerline between a first end of the housing and a second end of the housing, a piezoelectric element within the housing and positioned along the centerline, and at least two magnets within the housing and positioned along the centerline. The at least two magnets and the piezoelectric element are configured to be positioned along a tangent plane of the structural asset.

A fluid pipe 1 is monitored using a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) fibre 10 provided within pipe 1. The DAS fibre 10 is coupled at one end to a light emitter 101 and a light detector 102. The light emitter 101 emits light pulses into the DAS fibre. The light detector 102 detects backscattered light so as to provide an indication of the vibration experienced by each section of the DAS fibre 10 and thus of vibration characteristic of particular pipe events including leaks of the pipe 1. The DAS fibre 10 in a pipe 1 can also be used to locate the route of a buried pipe 1 by successively tamping the ground surface at a number of locations A-E in the vicinity of the suspected route of the pipe 1 and comparing the tamping vibrations detected from each location A-E.

A system for monitoring the performance of a multi-stranded tensile member where a portion of the strands are concealed within a termination. The invention provides a monitoring system that allows the user to determine when one or more of the strands has degraded to a point of concern. In some embodiments the monitoring system depends on visual inspection and in other embodiments the monitoring system is automated.

A method and system for conducting a non-contact survey of an overhead crane runway system using a survey apparatus that is alternately located in the crane bay or on a crane bridge girder. Disclosed more particularly are a method and system for testing an overhead crane runway beam 3D alignment or an overhead crane runway rail 3D alignment using a 3D laser scanner.

In a device for evaluating torsional structural performance of girder according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a guide unit of a support member formed in a shape of an arc having its center that matches a shear center of the girder rotatably supports a rotating member, so that the shear center of the girder matches a center of torsion during clockwise or counterclockwise rotation of the rotating member, thereby measuring an accurate angle of twist and preventing an incident in which the rotating member escapes due to separation of a component by a rotational force.

An apparatus for predicting a deformed shape of a structure, and method of operating and forming the same. In an embodiment, the apparatus is formed with a riser with ends coupled respectively to an upper location and a lower location. The apparatus includes sensors configured to sense an inclination of the riser at riser nodes positioned on the riser between the upper location and the lower location. The apparatus further includes a data processing system configured to produce an estimate of a deformed shape of the riser employing deformed shaped functions to represent, respectively, the estimate of the deformed shape of the riser above and below the riser nodes.

Disclosed herein are components, systems, and methods to monitor acoustic emissions of a high pressure system to predict failure of the high pressure system. Further disclosed herein are components, systems, and methods to monitor acoustic emissions of a high pressure system to identify characteristics of one or more defects as they form and grow within components of the high pressure system. Characteristics of the defects include type, size, growth, and location.

The present invention discloses a boom monitoring method and engineering machinery comprising a boom monitoring system. The method comprises obtaining a boom damage signal monitored in boom operation by a piezoelectric sensing network formed by a plurality of piezoelectric sensors arranged at different points on a boom, and determining a damage position of the boom and a corresponding first boom damage value such that when the first boom damage value reaches a preset starting value of an optical fiber sensing network formed by a plurality of optical fiber sensors arranged at the different monitoring points on the boom, optical wave values of the corresponding monitoring points are obtained and a boom crack signal is determined. A second boom damage value is calculated according to the boom crack signal, which comprises a crack change factor and a crack length. According to the present invention, the boom is monitored with improved efficiency.