(openPR) - In 2010, SGS Industrial Services, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing, and certification company, was awarded a contract to provide comprehensive monitoring services of the BP-1413 highway’s viaduct over Can Fatjó (Cerdanyola del Vallès - Barcelona) in Spain.

A team of highly skilled SGS experts monitors the main stretch of the BP-1413 highway’s viaduct via two 25-meter long optic fibers and 50-meter transverse optic fiber located along and across the soffit of the prefabricated voussoirs, respectively. This system supplies real-time data needed to manage and control the viaduct to assure its safety and reliability. Moreover, this technology can be used as a detection warning system to prevent fissures in concrete structures and for research regarding their evolution and behavior.

Due to the precision and spatial high resolution of the optical fiber sensors, SGS Industrial Services obtains very reliable results. The SGS measurement of strains throughout the fiber allows for obtaining not only the strains in all points but also for the deflection at the interest points. With its extensive monitoring services, SGS controls the passing load of the highway’s viaduct and compares the resulting data with that obtained in the previous load test. The analysis of the data gathered allows SGS’s experts to learn the viaduct’s behavior and take possible corrective actions to optimize the viaduct’s maintenance, repair, or replacement operations.

With SGS’s help, the quality, safety and reliability of the BP-1413 highway’s viaduct in Spain is guaranteed through continuous monitoring and to the client’s full satisfaction.

About SGS Industrial Services

Industrial Services is one of the major business lines of the SGS Group, a global service provider for technical verification, inspection, testing, and conformity assessment. SGS Industrial Services ensures that the customer’s installations, material, equipment, facilities, and projects meet all quality and performance requirements, whether they are regulatory, voluntary, or customer-based. Industrial Services has decades’ worth of experience and some remarkable references for serving key industries, such as Construction, Industrial Manufacturing and Trade, the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industry, Power Generation and Transmission, Banks and Financial Institutions, and Renewable Energy.

SGS Industrial Services is your local partner with global experience and connections. The strength of SGS lies in understanding its customers’ operational challenges and adding value by providing individual solutions.

SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 67,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 1,250 offices and laboratories around the world.

SGS Industrial Services
Vicens Villalba Herrero
Engineer PhD. Structural Monitoring Manager

SGS Tecnos, S.A.
C/ Llull, 95-97 planta 5ª
08005 Barcelona

t: +933 20 36 17
f: +933 29 36 20/21
Email : industrial.pr@sgs.com
Website: www.sgs.com/industrial