PlastometRexrex获得了创新的英国资金，以占领240亿美元的非破坏性测试市场。
Innovate UK支持的项目将资助该公司新颖的测试技术的便携式版本的开发。图片来源：PlastSometrex
Plastometrex, the science and technology company based in Cambridge, has secured an Innovate UK SMART grant with global testing service providers, ROSEN and Element Materials Technology, and the UK’s National Physical laboratory, NPL. The funds will be used to develop new industry-changing products that will enable rapid and accurate testing of metal components “in the field”. The testing data produced by Plastometrex’s portable testing equipment will be used to ensure the safe operation of critical infrastructure and high-value assets to support improvements in safety and to reduce catastrophic failures that can lead to massive environmental damage.
每年，都会生产数百万吨的结构金属，以支持我们对现代基础设施的不断增长的需求。从我们驾驶的桥梁，我们沿着轨道的桥梁以及我们依靠的能源系统中，大型金属结构构成了我们现代社会的关键部分。当这些结构失败时，后果可能是灾难性的。例如，在2018年，仅在美国，管道失败就造成了近20亿美元的损失。
Given the consequences of failure, the testing and inspection of in-field assets is big business, with a global market valued at over $24 billion. Current technologies include ultrasonic systems for crack detection, corrosion monitoring solutions, and chemical composition analysis. However, there is no widely accepted method for testing the underlying strength of the metal from which the assets are made. Conventional “destructive” methods rely on shutting down assets and extracting material in order to run laboratory-based tensile tests – a practice that is often unviable due to the structural damage this creates and the costs that are incurred. This can leave operators with limited material property data, making it difficult to reliably predict the useful remaining life of their components.
总部位于剑桥的材料科学公司Plastometrex现在已经启动了欧洲杯足球竞彩一项由欧洲杯线上买球英国资助的创新计划，以解决此现场测试问题。该公司领导一个财团，其中还包括全球资产检查公司Rosen，领先的测试服务提供商元素材料技术和国家物理实验室（NPL）。欧洲杯足球竞彩该计划将着重于将Plastometlex的新型平台测试技术（称为PIP）应用于在现场检查高价值金属资产的检查。
Plastometrex的PIP技术以无损，准确且非常快的方式提取准确的材料强度数据（应力 - 应变曲线）。该技术利用自动凹痕测试和高级数值方法的独特组合来实现这一目标。该公司在第4季度成功推出了台式测试设备，该设备现已被全球领先的大学和公司使用。新资助的计划将支持该公司开发该系统的便携式版本，将技术从实验室移出并进入现场。
PlastometRetrex将在2023年发布此便携式测试系统。该系统将适用于所有金属材料，并将用于测试各种关键金属资产的强度。欧洲杯足球竞彩Plastometrex机器的数据将为操作员提供提高这些系统的安全性和操作效率所需的关键信息。
Plastometrex首席执行官James Dean博士has this to say about the development:
我们很高兴获得Innovate UK的资金，因为这是一个竞争激烈的电话。凭借这笔资金获得了确保，并且在我们的跨国合作伙伴的情况下，我们现在拥有非常丰富的资源来开发我们的现场金属测试技术。
Plastometrex首席执行官James Dean博士
The ROSEN Group is one of the consortium’s lead partners and will support both the technology development and commercial roll-out. The company is a globally leading provider of cutting-edge services in all areas of the asset integrity process chain with a team of more than 4,000 employees operating in 120 countries.
尼尔·加隆（Neil Gallon），英国罗森集团（Rosen Group）的主要冶金学家, had this to say:
The Plastometrex technology has the potential to bring a powerful tool to the asset integrity monitoring sector. The rapid, reliable, and accurate measurement of metal strength characteristics in the field is needed now more than ever in order to support the safe management and repurposing of critical metal infrastructure.
尼尔·加隆（Neil Gallon），英国罗森集团（Rosen Group）的主要冶金学家