Civil Engineering

The design, build and maintenance of bridges, roads, railways and tunnels demands reliable measurement techniques.

Our technology is enabling surveyors, geotechnical specialists and structural engineers to record and log data from a large variety of sensors using both traditional wired methods and innovative wireless techniques.

The examples below show how our instruments are being utilised within Civil Engineering.

Bridge Bolt Monitoring The Problem: A new bridge construction consisted of a series of stanchions bolted to a road platform. The bolts were tightened to a defined torque but the bridge designe...

Remote Load Monitoring of Construction Shoring Struts Remote Monitoring Aids Safety Critical Construction Projects Read Geotechnics Feature in New Civil Engineer NCE 07.04.11 Mantracourt’s innovative radio telemetry...

Telemetry Monitoring on High Altitude Roads Mountain roads are treacherous places in the winter and operatives must patrol roads to ensure that they are clear. Snow can be kept off the roads using snow fences that...

Wireless Monitoring of Bridge Structures Highway agencies and bridge owners spend large revenues protecting bridge users by visual inspection of bridge elements such as bolt joints and tensile steel ropes. The...

Opera House Relocation Moving the location of an entire structure calls for professionals. The Problem: When an opera building in Tokyo had to be moved three miles from its original...

Monitoring Tension in a Radio Mast During the erection of a radio mast, it was necessary to monitor the loads in the twelve guylines holding the mast in place. Once the mast had been erected, the tension i...

Wireless Monitoring of Anchor Loads The DML Project in Zurich is one of the worlds most exciting and ambitious projects executed by the Swiss National Railway Company SBB. The 1.6 billion SF project centres...

Wireless Bridge Surveying via GPRS Many logging applications are in remote sites with no available Internet or long range transmission options available. GPRS offers world-wide accessibility to data. A civ...

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