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Imetrum's stand at the recent China International Composites exhibition in Shanghai was a popular stand to visit with numerous Chinese composite material manufactures showing a keen interest in Imetrum's unique technology in the Video Gauge.

Ease of use, quick set up and high resolution measurements were key features that interested the many stand visitors. Numerous visitors were also impressed with the Video gauges abilities to measure modulus and elongation on specimens ranging from 25mm (standard dogbone) to individual carbon fibres less than 10 microns in diameter.

Imetrum's structural monitoring system is increasingly being used for short term monitoring applications such as load tests and vibration analysis of bridges, where it is delivering an excellent level of quality data with minimal setup time and cost.

The system also has a number of potential advantages over Robotic Total Stations, including increased resolution and no need for targets in many cases. To validate its performance over the long term, Imetrum are working with a number of partners to install systems on UK infrastructure in conjunction with Total Stations, and then analyse and compare the data from both systems. The first of these has just been installed on the National Physical Laboratory site in Teddington, and will run for a month, recording both structural movement from environmental effects and a number of dynamic and static testing events.

Imetrum has been invited to attend the JEC Composites Show in Paris 29-31st March 2011, to exhibit alongside our new French distributor; Mescan. The Video Gauge system will be on display on Mescan's stand (Q82).

Find out more about the show on the JEC Composites website