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The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation, Washington, D.C., U.S.), the nation’s largest wholesale water supplier, in partnership with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE, Washington, D.C.) and HeroX (Vancouver, Canada), a crowdsourcing platform, announced on March 4 the crowdsourcing competition “The Imperfection Detection Challenge.” The challenge calls on the global community to design portable devices for field assessment of composite structures. The goal is to eventually develop prototypes that can rapidly detect and quantify defects of interest, and are portable, rugged and easily used in field settings.
Use of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials for federal civil infrastructure is an ongoing project at both Reclamation and USACE in applications such as pipelines, tanks and other specialized equipment, which take advantage of the material’s corrosion resistance, light weight and other helpful properties. However, as composites age in various inf
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WASHINGTON, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The
Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the nation s largest wholesale water supplier, in partnership with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and
HeroX, the leading crowdsourcing platform for solutions to global problems, today announced the crowdsourcing competition
The Imperfection Detection Challenge . The challenge calls on the global community of solvers to design portable devices for field assessment of composite structures.