Active control of water losses is an essential strategy to increase the efficiency of urban water supply systems. This work deals with the early detection of leaks occurring in small-diameter service pipes of water distribution networks. Preliminary experiments were conducted in a test facility to assess the sensitivity of Acoustic Emission methods to leaking water flows. Acoustic Emission meas...

Insulation used in transformer is mostly oil pressboard insulation. Insulation failure is one of the major causes of catastrophic failure of transformers. It is established that partial discharges (PD) cause insulation degradation and premature failure of insulation. Online monitoring of PDs can reduce the risk of catastrophic failure of transformers. There are different techniques of partial d...

Tensile tests were carlied out on con~mercialty available NiTi alloys in order to study their mechamcal d~aracterirtics up to tlie onsct of thc superelasticity effect. Two realtimc supporting techniques, adiabatic thermal emission and acoustic emission, were employed. Thermal ekssion allowed to follow local temperature variations in the material due to loading, while acoustic emission was able ...

Acoustic emission monitoring has been successfully employed in different application areas such as of fatigue loaded bridges and pressure testing vessels. However, this technology on resistance (spot) welding processes yielded limited results. Existing literature only mentions the detection certain defects expulsion cracked welds. Detecting nugget nucleation growth, to allow prediction diameter...

Acoustic emission (AE) testing is a widely used nondestructive method for the early detection of failures in materials and structures. In this paper, an AE sensor combining optical fiber sensing with laser self-mixing interference (SMI) technology proposed. A multi-coil ring wound round cylindrical acrylic skeleton was designed order to sense deformation caused by elastic waves, which then demo...