49 results about "Impact measurement" patented technology

A system architecture and a method for management using a cellular architecture to allow multi-tier management of events such as the managing of the actual impact or the potential impact of IT infrastructure situations on business services. A preferred embodiment includes a high availability management backbone to frame monitoring operations using a cross-domain model where IT Component events are abstracted into IT Aggregate events. By combining IT Aggregate events with transaction events, an operational representation of the business services is possible. Another feature is the ability to connect this information to dependent business user groups such as internal end-users or external customers for direct impact measurement. A web of peer-to-peer rule-based cellular event processors preferably using Dynamic Data Association constitutes management backbone crossed by event flows, the execution of rules, and distributed set of dynamic inter-related object data rooted in the top data instances featuring the business services.

A brain and / or skull impact measurement system has a body mounted impact device. The body mounted impact device includes a tri-axial accelerometer configured to measure impacts to an individual's body where the sensor produces impact data in response to the impact. A reader is provided with a data processor and a transmitter / receiver that receives the impact data. The reader is coupled to the body mounted impact device and can be a handheld device.

An interactive risk management system and method using reputation risk reduction and an impact measurement analysis matrix are used for a business or other organization to generate a graphic display to the user, through the browser, to display a mapping of processes used in conducting the business or the affairs of the organization and allow the user to selectively view additional data, such as messages describing risks associated with the process selected. The user may navigate thorough and among the processes to access and review associated data, allowing the user to gain information about selected processes and associated risks. Metrics are used for evaluating a likelihood of reputation risk.

The invention provides a method for assessing risk within an organization, comprising: defining one or more zones (2), each of the one or more zones comprising an environment; identifying one or more assets (4) of the organization, each of the assets being located in a respective one of the zones; conducting a respective impact assessment (6) for each of the assets, each assessment comprising assessing the impact of the loss of the respective asset; conducting for each of the zones a respective zone risk assessment (8a), comprising assessing the risk level associated with placing a respective asset within the respective corresponding zone; and conducting for each asset a respective asset risk assessment (8b), comprising assessing the risk level associated with the respective asset independent of the respective zone of the respective asset; and assessing risk on the basis of at least the impact assessment, the zone risk assessments and the asset risk assessments. The invention also provides a risk management method, comprising assessing risk according to the method described above and managing said risk.

A foot monitoring system includes a measurement circuit and an alert circuit. The measurement circuit measures sideways roll of a person's foot while the person is walking / running. The alert circuit determines that the person should change sideways spacing between the person's feet to change further measured values of the sideways roll of the person's foot toward preferred sideways roll values, and generates a notification that indicates to the person to change the sideways spacing between the feet. The foot measurement circuit may determine how much shoe cushioning life remains for a shoe worn by the person in response to comparison of values a peak pulse segment of impact measurements to another segment of the impact measurements that is outside the peak pulse segment.

An impact assessment system and method for determining emerging criticality in a complex system is provided. The impact assessment system includes a component dependency model and an emergent criticality analyzer. The component dependency model describes the relationships between components in the system and their underlying dependency and criticality relationships. The impact assessment system receives component failure data from the complex system and uses the component dependency model and emergent criticality analyzer to determine the impact of the component failure on the criticality of remaining components in the system. The impact assessment system is thus able to determine how component failures in the complex system can impact the criticality of remaining components in the complex system and thus can assist in determining how those components may or may not be safely used in further operational activities.

A system architecture and a method for managing using a cellular architecture to allow multi-tier management of events such as the managing of the actual impact or the potential impact of IT infrastructure situations on business services. A preferred embodiment includes a high availability management backbone to frame monitoring operations using a cross-domain model where IT component events are abstracted into IT Aggregate events. By combining IT Aggregate events with transaction events, an operational representation of the business services is possible. Another feature is the ability to connect this information to dependent business user groups such as internal end-users or external customers for direct impact measurement. A web of peer-to-peer rule-based cellular event processors preferably using Dynamic Data Association constitutes management backbone crossed by event flows, the execution rules, and distributed set of dynamic inter-related object data rooted in the top data instances featuring the business services.

An automated impact testing system provides reliable measurements of spray patterns of high-impact nozzles. The impact testing system includes a load cell mounted on a transport for controlled movements in two directions. The load cell includes a sensing pin extending through an aperture in a protective housing of the load cell. A special relationship between the dimensions of the sensing pin and the aperture allows the load cell to produce error-free impact measurement data.

The invention relates to an optical fiber sensing natural gas pipeline leakage event identification method and an optical fiber sensing natural gas pipeline leakage event identification device, which relates to the field of a mechanical vibration measurement technology, an impact measurement technology and a pipeline system technology. A time domain feature (Pt) of a pipeline normal operation and leakage status signal, a frequency-domain characterization (Pf) and a noise characteristic (Pn) of an existing pipeline transmission signal and the waveshape recognition are comprehensively analyzed, a leakage confidence coefficient function model is built as follows: R=a1Pt+a2Pf-a3Pn, the leakage of a picked up vibration wave signal is evaluated to judge whether leakage happens to the pipeline or not, and different arithmetical parameters a1, a2 and a3 are arranged to regulate the confidence coefficient module according to the characteristics of the existing pipeline; the time domain, the frequency domain and wave form estimation performed on the leakage signal is that the signal can be accurately identified to be the leakage event according to a time-varying enveloping character and abruptness of the leakage signal and a center frequency distribution character of the stable leakage event signal, based on the feature classification of a stimulated leakage event. The optical fiber sensing natural gas pipeline leakage identification method and the optical fiber sensing natural gas pipeline leakage identification device provided by the invention can monitor the signal abnormalities in time and give an alarm with high accuracy at the primary state of the leakage.

A method for automated real-time impact assessment is disclosed. The method uses real-time events and alerts from monitored systems and environments such as computer networks, telecommunications networks, transportation systems, buildings, military units, emergency response teams, air traffic, medical facilities and services, chemical process plants, manufacturing assembly lines, power plants, farms, supply-chain management, businesses with workflow-based business processes, and other real-time applications which maintain situational models to depict, determine, and analyze the historical, current, and potential state of a complex set of interacting things, entities, and agents. The method shows first a means to acquire and update the relationships between entities represented in the situational view and entities such as business process, tasks, assets, and missions which are the subject of the impact assessment. The method shows second a means to automatically determine and maintain, from the situational view and other information, an evaluation of the impact on the subjects of the assessment, such entities including business processes, tasks, assets, and missions. The method shows third a means to determine impact assessment from potential and actual situations in the situational view.

An environmental impact measurement system for an aircraft includes a one-way data interface and a processing system. The one-way data interface is adapted to continuously receive and transmit aircraft data and flight plan data. The processing system is in operable communication with the one-way data interface to receive the aircraft data and the flight plan data transmitted therefrom. The processing system is configured, upon receipt of the aircraft data and the flight plan data, to generate at least data representative of real-time environmental impact of the aircraft, and recommendations for improving the real-time environmental impact of the aircraft.

The invention relates to an optical fiber safety alarm system with safety protection alarm for embedded tube, building, device and area, belonging to mechanical vibration measurement, impact measurement, and tube system technical field. The invention comprises an optical path system composed of a laser (101)and a sensor system (102), connected with a photoelectric signal processing circuit (105)via an optical fiber, wherein the sensor system (102)via an optical fiber is connected with a phase controller (103)and a polarization controller (104)to be connected with the photoelectric signal processing circuit (105)via an electric signal line, and a positioning system (106)connected with the circuit (105)is connected with a signal recognize system (107)and a local management system (110), the output of the signal recognize system is connected with the local management system (110)which output is connected with an alarm output system (108)and an integral management platform (112), and the alarm output system (108)sends out the alarm information.

A foot monitoring system includes a measurement circuit and an alert circuit. The measurement circuit measures sideways roll of a person's foot while the person is walking / running. The alert circuit determines that the person should change sideways spacing between the person's feet to change further measured values of the sideways roll of the person's foot toward preferred sideways roll values, and generates a notification that indicates to the person to change the sideways spacing between the feet. The foot measurement circuit may determine how much shoe cushioning life remains for a shoe worn by the person in response to comparison of values a peak pulse segment of impact measurements to another segment of the impact measurements that is outside the peak pulse segment.

A system of monitoring impact stress, or acceleration forces on a user while exercising is disclosed. An exercise machine is equipped with sensing apparatus that measures the downward force exerted on the supporting surface by the lower extremities of the user. In this way, the corresponding impact forces are determined as a function of the user's body weight and communicated via a display monitor as "G-forces" or "Earth Gravity Units." This allows the user to keep exercise impact within limits desired by the user, a physical therapist, or other qualified professional.

The invention relates to a laser Doppler vibration measurement method impact acceleration measurement method, and belongs to the technical field of impact measurement test. The laser Doppler vibration measurement method impact acceleration measurement device comprises a HOPKINSON impact machine, an elastic body, a cushion layer, a HOPKINSON bar, an anvil body, a corrected impact acceleration sensor, a computer, a digital oscilloscope, a differential laser interferometer and a signal tuner. Impact acceleration waveforms are acquired by the mode of realizing filtering differential through average filtering in a local window and then differential so that the problem of wrong direction of an ISO standard recommendation method can be avoided. Besides, the average value of the absolute values of the deviation of a local end base straight line and each measurement value point to act as an error scale identification function of average filtering in the range of the average filtering window, and the relation curve of the identification function value and rising time and the local average window width ratio acts as the criterion of searching the optimal average window so as to solve the problem of optimal filtering.

The invention relates to a portable low-speed impact tester in the technical field of installing equipment of an impact tester, which comprises a supporting device, a falling weight impact measurement assembly and a second-impact-resisting device. The falling weight impact measurement assembly is arranged in the supporting device and connected with the supporting device, and the second-impact-resisting device is connected with the supporting device. Compared with the prior art, the portable multi-measurement-parameter low-speed impact tester is simple in integral structure, convenient to move and capable of measuring impact force, impact speed and rebound speed, is applicable to low-speed impact testing of large-scale structural parts, and can achieve collection of experiment data in an impact process.

The invention relates to a high-speed particle impact testing device comprising a pressure exciting unit, a testing range guiding tube which is in gas communication with the output end of the pressure exciting unit and particles which have diameters matching with the inner diameter of the testing range guiding tube and are driven by the pressure exciting unit to go ahead at high speed in the testing range guiding tube. One end of the testing range guiding tube, which is close to the pressure exciting unit, is radially provided with a particle filling opening; and the pressure exciting unit comprises an air compressor, an air input opening, and a supercharging pump connected with the air output opening of the air compressor. The invention utilizes compressed air to drive the air-air supercharging pump so that the air pressure can be improved to the measurement standard; in addition, the invention is easy to implement and has low manufacturing cost due to the adoption of the prior air compressor and the prior supercharging pump; moreover, the invention can regulate the high pressure for the particles to move at high speed in the testing range guiding tube so that the high-speed particle impact measurement result can be more reliable and the quality of the object to be measured is guaranteed.

The invention relates to a distributed fiber leakage monitoring system of a LNG storage tank. The invention relates to the technical fields of mechanical oscillation measurement, impact measurement and pipe-line system. The distributed fiber leakage monitoring system is composed of a leakage monitoring system host and an on-site distributed fiber, the on-site distributed fiber is paved in a heat-insulation layer between an inner pot base plate and an outer pot base plate of the LNG storage tank, and the heat-insulation layer between the inner pot wall and the outer pot wall; the system host (1) arranged at the far position of the LNG storage tank is connected to a fiber optic closure (5) outside the top of the LNG storage tank through a communication fiber (2), and the fiber optic closure (5) is connected to a pot wall monitoring fiber (3) and a pot bottom monitoring fiber (4). The distributed fiber leakage monitoring system has high safe technology and high protection performance, and can effectively reduce the environmental pollution and safety risk brought by the leakage of the LNG storage tank.

The invention discloses an ultra low temperature vibration sensor. External power supply is not needed in working, the sensor has no electronic components inside, the temperature range of use is wide, and the sensor is not limited by the electronic components. The operating temperature range of the ultra low temperature vibration sensor is -253 DEG C to 200 DEG C, the temperature error of measurement sensitivity is not larger than 10%, and the product performance index satisfies a vibration impact measurement requirement of a liquid hydrogen or liquid oxygen engine under a low temperature environment.

The invention discloses a method and system for resisting phase fading of a natural gas pipe leakage optical fiber detecting system and relates to the technical field of mechanical vibration measurement, impact measurement and a pipe system. A sensor with a Michelson interferometer or Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure is arranged on a pipe body every certain interval, and each sensor is connected in parallel between a transmitting optical fiber and a returning optical fiber through a light beam splitter and a light beam combiner; a serrasoidal / inverse serrasoidal wave modulation-based laser serves as a light source, a Michelson interferometer or a Mach-Zehnder interferometer which is not equal in arm length serves as the sensor, a cosine signal carrier similar to single frequency is generated in an interferometer signal, and a primary leakage sonic signal is acquired by modulating the carrier signal by using a cosine signal and a sine signal which have the same frequency as the carrier signal. The problems of unstable sensitivity and unstable signal to noise ratio caused by phase fading can be effectively solved, and a leakage signal is reliably detected.

The invention discloses a locating method for organizing a defence in a defence area of a perimeter prevention system and the system and relates to the technical field of mechanical vibration measurement, impact measurement and a pipeline system. According to the locating method, the whole defence area is divided into a plurality of layers of sub-defence-areas, the layers of sub-defence-areas organize defence in an overlapping mode, at least more than two sub-defence-areas are distributed on each section of defence area except the two ends of the defect area, and N+1 defence areas can be divided into by N sub-defence-area devices. According to the locating method for organizing the defence in the defence area, when a single sub-defence-area alarms, a defence area corresponding to the sub-defence-area is abnormal, and when a plurality of sub-defence-area alarm, defence areas corresponding to stacked parts of the sub-defence-areas are abnormal. The locating method and the terminal compound a plurality of defence areas, effectively solve the problem that a whole safety defence system loses efficacy when defence area devices lose efficacy, improve the locating precision of the defence area devices, and ensure the reliability of the system.

The invention discloses a magnetically-driven Hopkinson pressure lever testing device, which comprises a rack, a magnetically-driven module, an impact measurement component and a data collecting and processing module, wherein the rack comprises a fixed base and supporting seats which are distributed in a straight line shape and are installed on the fixed base; the magnetically-driven module comprises a stator, a rotor and a control system, wherein the stator is fixedly connected to the rack, and the rotor is assembled on a sliding rail in a stator inner hole; and the impact measurement component consists of a knock lever, an incident lever, a transmission lever and a buffer stop dog, wherein the knock lever, the incident lever, the transmission lever and the buffer stop dog are all assembled on the supporting seat. By use of the device, a high-accuracy high-strain-rate material dynamic mechanics performance test can be realized, the problems in a traditional air cannon type Hopkinson pressure lever testing process that air compression is long in time and large in noise, knock energy is unlikely to be accurately controlled and a knock lever is inconvenient in returning after testingis finished can be solved, Hopkinson pressure lever testing accuracy can be greatly improved, testing time is shortened, and testing efficiency is improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of impact measurement, and discloses a device for reducing influence of friction force in impact measurement. The device comprises a frame; an impact rod is slidably connected with the interior of the frame; extrusion rods are movably mounted at the left end and the right end of the upper end of the impact rod; symmetrically distributed arc-shaped bags are fixedly mounted at the upper end in the frame; air suction bags are fixedly installed on the opposite faces of the arc-shaped bags; and symmetrically-distributed fixed pipes are fixedly installed at the lower end of the interior of the frame. According to the device for reducing the influence of the friction force in impact measurement, in the downward movement process of an impact rod, an extrusion force is applied to the arc-shaped bags in cooperation with an extrusion rod, the arc-shaped bags are stressed and deformed to extrude the air suction bags, at the moment, the arc-shaped bags are in a deflation state, therefore lubricating oil in a liquid containing box can be pushed into a sealing pipe, and then the lubricating oil is smeared on the impact rod through the sealing pipe, so that the effect of automatically smearing the lubricating oil is achieved.

The invention provides a natural gas pipe leakage monitoring optical path system based on optical fiber sensing and relates to the technical field of mechanical vibration measurement, impact measurement and a pipe system. The natural gas pipe leakage monitoring optical path system based on the optical fiber sensing is formed by a light source, optical path adapters, a transmission optical cable and optical fiber sensing units. Each optical path adapter is composed of an optical beam splitter and an optical beam combiner, the optical fiber sensing units are adhered onto a natural gas pipe at a certain distance, every 2-10 adjacent sensing units are of a group, each group of the sensing units adopt two transmission optical fibers, a transmitting optical fiber and a returning optical fiber for transmitting laser light and interference signals; the two transmission optical fibers are sequentially connected with corresponding optical path adapters in series according to setting positions of the sensing units, each optical path adapter is respectively communicated with the corresponding optical fiber sensing units through the two optical fibers, and finally the returning optical fiber in the transmission optical fibers enables the interference signal to be returned to a main machine of the system. The natural gas pipe leakage monitoring optical path system based on the optical fiber sensing is high in sensitivity and accuracy, low in false alarm rate and not prone to be influenced by environment.

A system and method are provided that present consumers with the means to assess the impact of their transactions upon environmental and societal concerns. The system determines impact measurement scores based upon consumer transactions. The impact Scores provides consumers with insight as to the impact of their transactions upon one or more areas of concern, e.g., environmental and societal. As such, consumers can more directly conform their purchasing habits to align to their environmental and societal concerns.

A system and method provide for performing impact analysis for influencing attributes in a sales forecasting system. The sales forecasting system uses integrated predictive and statistical methods to help measure the variance of relevant data sets to guide an end user to relevant influencing attributes. The sales forecasting system may perform a statistical analysis to derive a sequence for the influencing attributes, and display the attributes to an end user in a specific sequence based on the performed statistical analysis.

The invention discloses a clamping device of a Leeb hardness tester for detecting the hardness of a pipeline. The clamping device is mainly composed of three parts including a pipeline clamping and fixing part, a Leeb hardness tester fixing part and a sliding rail block for the hardness tester to axially slide along a pipeline. By adopting the device, the Leeb hardness tester can be firmly fixed on a detected pipeline and is used for supporting the pipeline very well, so that a phenomenon that the measurement accuracy is influenced through relative displacement or springing in a measurement process is prevented; meanwhile, the Leeb hardness tester can be strictly moved along the axial direction of the detected pipeline through a sliding rail, so that researches and analysis are convenientto carry out. By adopting the device disclosed by the invention, the measurement accuracy of the Leeb hardness tester can be effectively improved.