Even when structural problems with the aging US infrastructure can be detected early, currently available methods of repair are often technologically outdated, logistically complex, prohibitively ...

Advances in composite materials have enabled numerous applications for oil and gas infrastructure repair and maintenance. Add to the list TSG/Pipe Repair with Sandwich Plate System (SPS), a new ...

It goes by several aliases: Trenchless technology. In-situ pipe repair. Pipe-within-a-pipe. By any name, the underground construction rehabilitation market is a boon to motorists, who suffer fewer ...

Large and in charge. QuakeWrap team members demonstrate the size of the 16-foot-diameter StifPipe. Photo Credit, all images: QuakeWrap Inc. For more than two decades, QuakeWrap Inc. (Tucson, Ariz., ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Robots are great for going where humans can't, and the cramped confines of municipal water pipes are the perfect example. A new initiative is working on building robots that can access and repair ...

Corrosion of steel water pipes in the safety-related piping systems of aging U.S. nuclear power plants is fast becoming a safety concern and a significant operational cost, not to mention an ...

A University of Arizona engineering professor may have a solution to a U.S. infrastructure problem that's growing deadlier each year. The Gas Technology Institute published a report in which the ...