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SHM – Structural Health Monitoring

Structural health monitoring (SHM) makes it possible to understand, anticipate, and predict the behavior of parts that are subject to heavy mechanical loads (bridges, works of art, prototypes, etc.).
Our teams meet SHM needs in industries such as aerospace, shipbuilding, mechanical engineering, and agriculture. We devise innovative instrumentation strategies and develop custom-made sensors that are both robust and cost-effective. All of our on-site instrumentation can be coupled with mechanical tests in the laboratory.

Our engineering and R&D services

Our R&D teams carry out needs-specific measuring, instrumentation, and real-time monitoring services. Our service is complete, from conducting extension measurements to using artificial intelligence to enhance predictive maintenance.

Innovative measurement strategies

We offer innovative, robust, and economical monitoring strategies by adapting existing technologies to your needs.

  • Benchmarking and state of the art
  • Choice of sensors: wired or wireless
  • Customized instrumentation and monitoring strategies
  • Creating custom sensors to meet your needs
  • Strategic choice of results analysis, with or without artificial intelligence

Extensometer measurements and strain measurements

Using various sensors to measure all physical values: strain gauges, fiber optics, image correlation, etc.

  • Deformation (wired or wireless), e.g., strain gauges
  • Non-contact displacement
  • Force sensors
  • Pressure
  • Torque: torque sensors, friction measurements
  • Load and weight: weighing sensors, etc.
  • Temperature

On-site instrumentation and on-board measurements

Analyzing your structures’ behavior under mechanical loads and ingeniously monitoring their state of health.

  • Installing strain gauges and other extensometer sensors on different substrates (metal, composite, etc.)
  • Fiber optic measurements
  • Image correlation measurements
  • Real-time monitoring: data acquisition systems
  • Structural analysis, dynamic non-destructive testing
  • Conducting measurement campaigns

Custom-designed sensors

Implementing innovative instrumentation strategies through our selection of recommended sensors and by developing custom-made sensors.

  • Developing low-cost sensors for measuring force, displacement, strain, pressure, etc.
  • Adapting and developing new uses for standard sensors
  • New sensors combining fiber optics, extensometers, adhesive, etc.
  • Manufacturing custom test bodies
  • Gluing gauges to mechanical parts
  • Incorporating sensors into your materials and parts

Fiber-optic sensors for monitoring

Performing non-destructive testing on your structures with new technologies that are more precise and cost-effective, e.g., fiber optics.

  • Incorporating optical sensors into your materials and parts
  • Monitoring operational behavior: strain, temperature, acceleration, moisture absorption, CME, etc.
  • Data acquisition (DAQ): fiber-optic interrogator, BraggMETER, etc.
  • Data analysis and interpretation

Predictive maintenance and artificial intelligence

Automatically analyze received data to anticipate maintenance operations and predict abnormal system behavior.

  • Determining critical parameters
  • Data preprocessing, qualitative and quantitative data analysis
  • Machine learning, statistical modeling, probabilistic modeling
  • Data visualization
  • Real-time monitoring and alerts
  • Built-in software and web + mobile application development

Need an innovative and resourceful partner?

Capacités teams inspire, harness and couple numerous cutting-edge skills covering a wide range of applications and expertise to meet all of your innovation needs with passion and commitment!

+33 (0)2 72 64 88 94

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    Capacités teams inspire, harness and couple numerous cutting-edge skills covering a wide range of applications and expertise to meet all of your innovation needs with passion and commitment!

    +33 (0)2 72 64 88 94

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