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EPRI Case Study

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EPRI:

EPRI, a nuclear power research division came to a technology seminar and immediately recognized the use of 3D scanning. Checking to if the weld on a pipe inside a nuclear plant is structurally sound a machine is custom fit to each profile. To get the accuracy needed on a pipe 40 inches in diameter, hand measurements were just too inaccurate.

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3D Laser Scanning:

One engineer was sent down a week prior to scanning to have on-site nuclear plant training. Using photogrammetry each nozzle was laid with dots to ensure accurate data around the entire pipe. Finally, a light weight hand held scanner was used to scan the surface of each nozzle around the entire circumference.

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Merged and Scaled:

The drawback in the plant was that some material could not be removed to scan the pipe underneath it. This caused an issue in modeling spray nozzles and other extras on the pipe. Neometrix was able to combine design data from EPRI with data extrapolated from the scans to create the most accurate 3D models of each nozzle ever created.


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