'HULLMOS-II' Hull Monitoring System

Dates:
2001-2005

Sponsors:
European research funding programme Eureka!

Project Brief:
To develop monitoring techniques for hulls of catamarans and other fast craft constructed from lightweight materials such as aluminium or fiber-reinforced composites. To carry out full-scale measuring campaigns on pilot installations to verify system integrity and utility of data provided.

Partners:
Smart Fibres
R Rouvari Oy (Finland)
Hydrographic and Marine Consultants BV (Netherlands)

Delivered:
- Development of three sensor types – SmartPatch, SmartHull LGL and SmartHull SGL - suited to Hull monitoring applications.

- Qualification of the SmartPatch sensor in laboratory tests was successfully made and disseminated.

- The developed HULLMOS system was successfully demonstrated in live sea-trials on a high profile and very suitable test vessel, a composite military patrol boat.

- The establishment of Smart Fibres as a leading UK supplier of fibreoptic hull stress monitoring systems