Wear Measurement
The Applied Sterilisation Technologies
(AST) are fully equipped to facilitate a range of wear
measurement tests.
The ability to measure wear or
erosion in real-time with very high sensitivity can dramatically
accelerate product development programmes and trouble-shooting.
Thin layer activation makes this possible by labelling the surface
of a component with trace levels of a marker radionuclide.
Wear or erosion can be followed
either by monitoring the removal of the marker or by measuring the
accumulation of labelled debris, using simple and robust
measurement equipment providing quantitative results in real-time.
Use of this technique avoids the repeated assembly and disassembly
of systems in order to make physical measurements on components and
the risk of subsequent misalignment. The level of radionuclide used
is very small, requiring only rudimentary handling precautions.