Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Stephen Neidigk positions a comparative vacuum monitoring sensor on a bridge. In his other hand is the controller that periodically checks the sensor ...

STRUCTURAL MONITORING SYSTEMS, Australia received FAA certification for its Comparative Vacuum Monitor (CVM) sensors that detect cracks in commercial aircraft (initially 737-800s); it worked with ...

Australian company Structural Monitoring System (SMS) is close to deals with Airbus and Boeing to use its comparative vacuum monitoring (CVM) structural integrity technology on commercial aircraft ...

Rich Poutier, executive VP business development at Structural Monitoring Systems, talks about progressing certification of a technology for airframe structural monitoring. Structural Monitoring ...

Structural engineers have long imagined the day when materials used in an aircraft, a wind turbine blade or a bridge could sense if they had been strained to the point of damage, reducing their ...

Australian company Structural Monitoring Systems' (SMS) comparative vacuum monitoring (CVM) technology could be approved for Boeing's commercial aircraft standard practices manual (SPM) by mid-2006, ...