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Technology topics: Risk management
Piezoelectric sensors and self monitoring planes
A sense of things to come – smart sensors and the environment
Predicting natural events
Fixing the cracks in disaster mitigation
Piezoelectric sensors and self monitoring planes
Metal fatigue has been the cause of many airline, ship and bridge disasters . New piezoelectric sensors are now helping to detect, report and even fix such problems as they occur.
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Defence Science and Technology Organisation |
A sense of things to come – smart sensors and the environment
Monitoring reef systems or catchments for environmental change can be a big job; sometimes too big for humans to handle without a bit of technological assistance. Now that assistance is increasingly available in the form of smart sensors.
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ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing |
Predicting natural events
The study of thresholds and pattern dynamics may be a key to unlocking our understanding of catastrophic climate change and other types ofcomplex systems.
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The Sir Mark Oliphant International Frontiers of Science and Technology Conference Series |
Fixing the cracks in disaster mitigation
Better planning and construction can greatly reduce the impacts of earthquakes and other disasters.
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