Cracking, Corrosion, and Carbon Nanotubes – Come See How We’re Working with Each! (Part 2)
Jeff Demo Electrical Systems Team Lead Intelligent Systems Group In our last post, we let you know about the early March conference activities we had on our calendar. Coming up in mid-march, we have the NACE International Corrosion 2015 Conference & Expo with three additional paper presentations. Conrad Andrews, Mara Schindelholz, and Robert Jeffers will each have a presentation at the NACE Corrosion Conference about…Read More
Cracking, Corrosion, and Carbon Nanotubes – Come See How We’re Working with Each! (Part 1)
Jeff Demo Electrical Systems Team Lead Intelligent Systems Group There’s a lot of activity right now in Luna’s Technology Development Division, and we’re trying to get the word out. What better way to learn about all of our cutting edge technology than to come hear our experts speak about their work at one of the many conferences we present at each year. The first event…Read More
Fiber Sensing Helps Validate Viability of the PRSEUS Concept in General Aviation
Josiah Fee Mechanical Engineer Lightwave Division Composites are a vital part of today’s and tomorrow’s aircraft innovation. With their high strength-to-weight ratio compared with metals, composites have opened up the possibilities for a number of novel aircraft structural designs. One such design is the Pultruded Rod Stitched Efficient Unitized Structure (PRSEUS) concept. This involves using a stitched skin and stringer-and-frame carbon fiber preform design for…Read More
Luna’s TrueClot® enables more realistic training
Michael J. Danilich, PhD Director, Biomedical Technologies Law enforcement officers are often the first to arrive on the scene of a shooting or motor vehicle accident and must be prepared to treat hemorrhage to save lives. For this reason, many municipalities across the United States stock hemostatic bandages, such as QuickClot® or Celox™ Rapid, to pack wounds and treat (or self-treat) hemorrhage. Hemostatic bandages contain…Read More
ODiSI-B Software Update
Great news for new and existing ODiSI-B users! Toward the end of 2014, Luna released a major software update for the revolutionary ODiSI-B strain and temperature measurement platform. The ODiSI (Optical Distributed Sensor Interrogator) uses low cost optical fiber to provide high speed, fully distributed strain and temperature measurements. It saves time and costs while adding a new dimension to sensing measurements with its…Read More
Aircraft Corrosion Sensing and In-Service Environmental Monitoring
Jeff Demo Electrical Systems Team Lead Intelligent Systems Group Exposure to harsh, corrosive environments during operational and on-ground activities can have significant contributions to aging and structural deterioration of aircraft. Reduction in aircraft system reliability presents a major cost driver in the total lifecycle costs as well as a threat to the safety. Environmental parameters, including temperature and relative humidity, as well as outside contamination…Read More
Introducing our new Resource Library
What is it? It’s a library of resources to provide access to the tremendous amount of content that we have developed over the years. It includes product-specific literature, application-based technical resources, and media presentations of our unique technologies. Why should you care? It makes available to you all of the resources that we have developed It presents the content intuitively and effectively; categorized by…Read More
One more reason to go to OFC this year
We’re going to be at OFC again this year and we hope that you are too! Visit us at booth #623As we’ve done in the past, we will be demonstrating our optical technologies at our booth, including our Component Analyzers, Reflectometers, and Tunable Lasers. Have you seen our Fiber Optic Testing instruments yet?Well, what you’ll see is that our technology allows engineers to…Read More
How to Make Better Sensors Using Living Cells
Christopher Tison, PhD, Research ScientistBlaine Butler, Research ScientistBiomedical Technologies Group Living Cells as Chemical and Biological Sensors The ability to monitor chemical or biological contamination of everything from the water we drink to the air we breathe is a critical concern for both civilian and military populations. Though there are dozens of options for rapid analysis of many toxins (toxic biological specimens) and toxicants (toxic…Read More
Exciting news about our shape sensing technology
My ChungPresident and Chief Executive Officer Today we announced that our long-time development partner, Intuitive Surgical, is purchasing our shape-sensing technology for medical application; which has been targeted at the robotic-assisted minimally-invasive surgical systems market. The agreement covers our shape-sensing and localization technology for medical applications only. Intuitive will license this technology back to us to continue to develop the technology under our existing agreements…Read More
