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Embedded Railway Ballast Moisture Sensing
Railbed health is an important aspect of safe transportation by train. If not properly maintained, over time this can lead to track misalignment and compromised load-bearing capacity. If the tracks are compromised in any way, catastrophic derailment is more likely. Additionally, the massive financial burden that misaligned tracks carry with them is...
Published: 2/22/2025
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Inventor(s): Tom Weller, Ismail Uluer, Jeff Frolik
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
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Wireless Snowpack Monitoring System
Snowpack studies are essential for water planning and provide critical data for fields such as agriculture, recreation, and city planning. Until now, the predominant ground-based techniques used for these studies have been manual measurement of snow cores and deployment of large, potentially hazardous antifreeze-filled bladders.
The high cost and snowpack...
Published: 2/4/2025
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Inventor(s): Jeff Frolik, Christian Skalka
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Environment & Energy
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An Economical In Situ System for Detecting Moisture
This technology is an economical system for detecting and characterizing signal loss in communications channels with power at only one end of the channel. It is used to measure the properties of the medium itself, such as the amount of moisture.
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One or more passive sensors can be embedded in situ during construction (at a point or in an...
Published: 2/4/2025
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Inventor(s): Jeff Frolik
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
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