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SoundAnchor™ Inspection
Method
The SoundAnchor method uses ultrasonic energy for volumetric assessment
of subterranean tower anchor rods without
unearthing the individual rods or destabilizing the structure.
Market Assessment
About 100,000 guyed-wire, anchored towers exist in the U.S. for telecommunication
and other transmissions of radio frequencies. With growth in wireless communications,
the
number of towers continues to increase on a daily basis.
A potentially larger
market is the electrical power utility transmission systems across the
U.S. Georgia Power estimates that it has about 2,000,000 guyed-wire anchors
to inspect.
Patent Status
U.S. Patent No. 6,311,565 has
been issued on this invention.
Stage of Development
The SoundAnchor system is being used to inspect meteorological and transmission
towers at the Savannah River Site and also has been used at the Department
of Energy’s Y- 12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Contact
Dale K. Haas, Licensing Associate
803-725-4185
dale.haas@srnl.doe.gov
For More Information
See Tech Brief.
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