Polish civil engineering company protects bridges and roads with Shimadzu support

The Arteries of a Nation: Bridges, Rails and Roads

They are the arteries of a nation. Bridges, rails and roads are all critical infrastructure that allow the blood of goods to move throughout the land. Their loss almost guarantees the end of a town. When the historic Tohoku tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan in 2011, the government’s first reconstruction priority was transport, with newspapers juxtaposing images of roads in the region immediately after the water broke land to less than a week later.

 

 

And much like how our arteries are designed to last decades, these structures too must last just as long, if not longer. Yet, from the first moment they leave the manufacturing site, they already suffer from cracks and imperfections that only increase with time as they withstand increased traffic due to growing populations or extreme temperatures due to climate change. For this reason, cities outsource civil engineering companies to deploy sensors that can detect early irregularities that need attention. One company that has shown extraordinary innovation in this field comes out of Kraków, Poland:SHM System .Its staff of 30 people has developed distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) technology that combines unprecedented resolution with unprecedented lifetime, a quality that has been verified and developed using Shimadzu instruments incorporated into the workflow…read more