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WINS acquires state-of-the-art equipment for enhanced Guided Wave Inspection Services for Pipelines and Bridge Cables, November 2009.
WINS delivers Acoustic Emission Level III Training Course in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 5-9, 2009
WINS is awarded contract with U.S. Department of Energy for developing inspection technology for health monitoring of coal power plant components, August 2009
WINS presents a paper at NYC Bridge Conference titled "Structural health monitoring using wireless acoustic emission sensor network" in August, 2009
WINS is awarded contract with NSF for developing inspection technology for Steel Piles, July 2009
WINS presents "Acoustic emission input to inspection-based bridge maintenance" at the International Conference on Fracture & Fatigue in July, 2009
WINS is awarded Market Access Grant from Pennsylvania IBD to launch Joint Venture in India, May 2009
WINS provide Visual as well as Acoustic Emission services for the inspection of FRP tanks.
Certified Internal and External Tank Inspection - Typically 5 year inspections that includes review of previous inspection reports and inspection of flange bolts, sounding for delaminations, crazing, surface hardness, and bottom flatness, in addition to features inspected during Periodic Preventive Maintenance Inspections.
Use Acoustic Emission (AE) to inspect new and in-service FRP tanks for:
- resin cracking,
- fiber-matrix debonding,
- fiber pullout,
- fiber breakage,
- delamination, and bond failure in assembled nozzles and manways
AE inspection can be performed on:
- atmospheric -vertical tanks
- atmospheric - pressure vertical tanks
- atmospheric - vacuum vertical tanks
- atmospheric - pressure horizontal tanks
FRP structural integrity tests typically take about 1/2 day to complete depending on pump capacity, tank capacity, and access limitations. WINS acoustic emission FRP tank inspection procedure satisfies the guidelines set forth in ASTM E 1067-07 Standard Practice for AE Examination of Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic Resin (FRP) TanksAtmospheric FRP Tank Test Procedure
1. Baseline noise level determination 10 - 30 minutes.
2. Hold at 50% capacity for 10 minutes minimum.
3. Hold at 75% capacity for 10 minutes minimum.
4. Hold at 87% capacity for 10 minutes minimum
5. Hold at 100% capacity for 30 minutes minimum.
*Note that different tank configurations require different fill/hold sequences.