Case Studies

Responding to the international drive for improved fuel-efficiency, leading aircraft engine manufacturers are designing smaller, lighter engines, operating at higher temperatures and pressures than those currently in service. Such engines also ‘bleed’ hot, high-pressure air to support other important aircraft systems, typically...

Damage to rural bridges throughout the EU is being caused by lorries carrying heavy loads that may far exceed their design criteria. For example, in Estonia there is increasing concern over damage to the road infrastructure due to heavy lorries carrying felled trees from forests to saw-mills on country roads. Laws are in force ...

Many products are generated by continuous manufacturing processes. Ensuring that packs conform to producer’s or customer’s requirements relies on verifying the contents of products against specification. This is performed by automatic weighing instruments without human intervention. Products are sent along constantly moving con...

Magnetic sensors can be found in a broad range of applications in the communications, oil and gas exploration and aerospace industries. A major challenge in these sectors is the determination of exact position, for example, of engine components during the ignition cycle or satellites during space flights. Magnetic sensors detec...

Manufacturing semiconductors and high power LEDs relies on cleanroom processes where chemicals such as hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride and ammonia are used to create features on printed circuits. But if these same chemicals are inadvertently released as tiny traces into the cleanroom air, interactions can ruin entire produ...

Many industrial processes, such as steelmaking, glass and ceramics manufacture, and materials research are done in industrial furnaces operating at very high temperatures. Reaching the required temperature is important for producing the right material properties and reliable temperature measurement is key to demonstrating such ...