Lattice measurements for early and not destructive diagnoses
Origin of the Company and its development XRD-Tools s.r.l. was born as a spin-off of the University of Pisa. Three stakeholders are the team of XRD- Tools s.r.l. and Giovanni Berti was the inspirer and founder with a large majority. Its academic know-how was released with a specific resolution of the Pisa Origin of the Company and its development XRD-Tools s.r.l. was born as a spin-off of the University of Pisa. Three stakeholders are the team of XRD- Tools s.r.l. and Giovanni Berti was the inspirer and founder with a large majority. Its academic know-how was released with a specific resolution of the Pisa DifRob®. It consists of an operating unit with nine degrees of freedom, control and service electronics; it is mounted on a tracked trolley with three other
degrees of freedom and possibility of movement even on pivoting wheels. All this offers great flexibility of use in numerous operational scenarios, where it is necessary to analyze the material of objects in operation (inspection in service by on site XRD).
The instrument collects data on site, useful for qualifying the properties of the materials for use suitability in service.
Geographical context in which it operates
Interesting prospects are possible in the Italian, Middle European, USA, East Asia and Middle East markets.
The current size of the company currently allows for operating in three national regions.
Performs lattice measurements. It is an early diagnosis that enables the manager to monitor plants and infrastructures for safe and preventive maintenance interventions. Recent developments have indicated the path to improve the data collections reliability from surfaces as they are on site. They reduce the historical problem related to the pre-analysis treatment of materials.
Treating the materials before analysis inevitably implies losing the qualifying properties for use.
Organizational structure
The realization of the hardware and software are performed partly internally and to a greater extent externally and then assembled.
Both proofs of concept for new applications and measurement services for now stable applications are carried out.
Fields of activity in the NDT
This technology can be exploited in different industrial sectors: mechanics, chemistry, buildings and monuments, cultural heritage, bioengineering and medicine, food, environment, forensic activities and customs controls and other civil and military sectors. Cyclic, generation of new phases, strength of cements and dispersion of microplastics, etc. The diagnostic procedures are aimed at the analysis of materials, the structural integrity and prognostic monitoring checks.
The controls determine the quality of the welds, the roughness of the surfaces, the porosity, the density, the granularity and its dispersion, the composition of the alloys and mixtures, friction, wear.
These properties qualify the integrity of the material and originate at the micro-nano-metric scale, where the presence of residual stresses, creeps and microstructures affect the rheology of the lattice to external physical, chemical, mechanical and thermal stresses.
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