University of Bristol academics have developed technology to sense if sports equipment such as mountain bikes, skateboards or fishing rods are reaching overload. The team is currently working with a number of industrial end-users and the university is calling for sales and manufacturing partners on World Intellectual Property Day. Please get in touch!
This is a family of novel, strip-like sensors based on a glass and carbon hybrid composite. The sensors easily attach to different parts of a structure to provide a simple and reliable indication of when critical loading conditions have been reached or surpassed.
The sensor can cover all or part of a structure and report on a range of conditions such as strain overload, fatigue or impact. Each sensor is thin, lightweight, modular and easy to attach, and doesn’t need a power supply or electronics to operate.
The innovation has broad potential application in the sports industry, as well as in other industries where detecting an overload condition is important.
A great video presenting this technology in action is available here:
More information can be found on our website – scroll down to composite sensors.
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