Research and development

Light Structures was founded based on the fiber optic sensor research at Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt (The Norwegian Defense Research Establishment), and active participation in Structural Health Monitoring R&D projects contribute to keeping our technology in the forefront, to our customers benefit.

Airframe repair monitoring (EDA with several European partners, no webpage yet)

The ‘Windsense’ project aims to develop a new and flexible instrumentation system for wind turbines. The system will help to make wind power more economically competitive. The project has been awarded 40% funding from The Research Council of Norway for a 3 year project period starting in February 2012. Kongsberg Maritime is project owner with Oddbjørn Malmo, Kongsberg Maritime, Lade as project manager. Other participants are Statoil, NTE, Light Structures, Trollhetta, NTNU, HiST, SINTEF Energy Research and MARINTEK.

Light structures has been an active participant in projects on Ice Load Monitorig (with DNV, Statoil, Teekay, Norwegian Coastguard, The Norwegian Meteorological Institute and C-map/Jeppesen). Ice Load Monitoring makes Arctic navigation safer – DNV GL was a three-year

Sloshing Full Scale measurements: Sloshing (with DNVGL, Lloyds, GTT, BWG, Teekay)
DNV – Full Scale Measurements of Sloshing in Membrane LNG … Subject: On DNV.com: Full Scale Measurements of Sloshing in Membrane LNG Tanks

New full-scale sloshing monitoring initiative headed by Samsung Heavy Industries.

DNVs container vessel research program