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The detection of soil erosion processes in dams, hydraulic heave failure or corrosion processes of reinforcing steel in concrete are a small selection of measuring applications in civil engineering where the impedance analysis can be used to determine the measurand. Those measuring applications are having high requirements for the measuring hardware. For example a common interface for fast data exchange, high resolution, independent functionality and easy customizability to suit the measuring application. For that reason, a well-known application for steel-mill process monitoring can be used as a development platform. This hardware platform is based on a vector network analyzer and is meeting the requirements mainly. However, a couple of modifications has to be made, like replacing the ADC for a higher sample rate, Ethernet for easy and fast data exchange and the microcontroller for more calculation power.
Process Monitoring in Steel-Mills using Impedance Analysis: VNA Improvement for Data Acquisition
(2017)
The process automation extends over every manufacturing step of a product in the steel-mill to increase the quality, quantity and energy efficiency. The product dimensions are an important part of the quality control; these must maintain the specified tolerances. Additional to the cross-sectional-area, the measured data contains much more information about the manufacturing process, e.g. eccentricity, condition of the rolls and defects of the rod. For analyzing the measured data and to gather more information about the manufacturing process it is necessary to increase the speed of the data acquisition by performing some modifications of the VNA, e.g. faster analog to digital converter and microcontroller, improved firmware and optimized values of the passive electrical components for faster time constants and transient responses.