NEWS

September 2010

August 2010

Light Structures welcomes Inge C. Paulsen as company's new Managing Director. Inge comes to Light Structures from SINTEF MARINTEK and brings over 20 years of management experience from the international shipping market. He takes over the Managing Director positon from the co-founder Geir Sagvolden, who will become the Director of Technology. Welcome onboard Inge!

February 2010

Light Structures brochure SENSFIB Fiber Optic Hull Stress Monitoring Systems is now available in pdf format. Click here to download.

January 2010

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, South Korea orders four advanced SENSFIB Plus fiber optic hull stress monitoring systems for Ignazio Messina's RO-RO carriers for delivery in 2011-2012.

January 2010

The Polytect project has won the JEC Innovation Award for the Building & Construction Category for 2010! The award ceremony wil take place during the JEC Paris Show on April 13. As a partner, Light Structures advises the project on health monitoring of masonry structures and designs, instruments and tests new fiber-optic sensor concepts. The incorporation of smart materials and sensors in textiles should allow constant monitoring of the structural integrity to prevent and signal e.g. imminent landslides, dam-bursts or sustained earthquake damage.

January 2010

Light Structures participated in the ACI's 3rd Optimising Ship Maintenance Conference held in Hamburg, Germany. In the course of event  LS has established valuable contacts potentially leading to the future cooperation. The conference addressed the challenges ship owners, managers and technical directors are experiencing in developing a pro-active approach to maintenance.

2009

October 2009

Light Structures as a member of the Association of the Norwegian Maritime Exporters (NME) took part in Kormarine 2009, the International Shipbuilding & Marine Equipment Show in Busan, South Korea. The show was well attended and activity level was higher than expected. "Norway Day" in regi of the Norwegian Embassy was one of the show's highlights with its popular seminar.

September 2009

Light Structures Managing Director Dr. Geir Sagvolden presented company's research on Ice Load Monitoring at  the 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring arranged at the Stanford University, USA . The workshop assessed the current state-of-the-art technologies and discussed and identified key and emerging issues in research and development that are critical and unique in structural health monitoring.

January 2009

Light Structures AS launches redesigned web pages.

2008

December 2008

The NFR supported research project “Ice Load Monitoring” finishes. The project has developed, installed and tested a fiber-optic monitoring system on the Norwegian coast guard vessel “KV Svalbard”, starting in December 2006. Data processing methods have been developed that assist the navigator in safe operations in ice by providing online information about the actual loads on the hull. The system will continue to operate onboard “KV Svalbard”.

December 2008

Light Structures commissions the fourth of five systems delivered to the Royal Norwegian Navy’s new series of Fast Patrol Boats in the Skjold-class. The series is being built at Umoe Mandal AS in Norway.

October 2008

The Polytect project, with participation from Light Structures AS, successfully tested new fiber-optic sensor concepts for health monitoring of masonry structures on a test wall under load at University of Karlsruhe.

November 2008

Light Structures commissions the “SENSFIB Global” system on “Al Ghuwairiya”, which is the tenth of 19 hull stress monitoring systems sold to shipyard DSME in Geoje, South Korea for the Qatargas 2 LNGCs. The series comprises a total of 54 tankers for liquefied natural gas that are being built at Korean shipyards to carry LNG from Qatar to terminals worldwide. All 54 ships are fitted with hull stress monitoring systems from Light Structures AS.

September 2008

Light Structures starts a 5-year project on detailed data analysis of Hull Stress Monitoring data from the SENSFIB–system installed on the LNGC Arctic Princess which is chartered by StatoilHydro to carry liquefied natural gas from Melkøya near Hammerfest in northern Norway to the US east coast. The project will provide new knowledge about the loads experienced by ships travelling in the northern part of the North Atlantic.

July 2008

The world’s largest LNG carrier, “MOZAH”, is delivered from Samsung Heavy Industries, Co. Ltd. in Korea to the Qatar Gas Transport Company. The ship, which has a capacity of 266,000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, is fitted with a “SENSFIB Global” Hull Stress Monitoring system.

July 2008

Light Structures commissions the “SENSFIB Global” system on “Al Utouriya”, which is the fifth of nine hull stress monitoring systems sold to shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. in Ulsan, South Korea for the Qatargas 2 LNGCs. The series comprises a total of 54 tankers for liquefied natural gas that are being built at Korean shipyards to carry LNG from Qatar to terminals worldwide. All 54 ships are fitted with hull stress monitoring systems from Light Structures AS.

June 2008

Light Structures AS is awarded the innovation prize Årets Nyskapningspris 2008 by NHO Oslo/Akershus, and is automatically nominated to the national competition. See also the press release here (in Norwegian).

June 2008

The “LNG Imo” is delivered from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering to its owner BWG. The ship is fitted with a first of its kind sloshing monitoring system which includes fiber-optic pressure sensors mounted at the primary membrane. The sloshing pressure sensors were developed by Light Structures in cooperation with DNV, and the system was installed on the LNG Imo as part of the Joint Industry Project “Full Scale Measurements of Sloshing in Membrane LNG Tanks”.

April 2008

SENSFIB HullInfo has been installed on one of the training simulators of SMS the Ship Manoeuvring Simulator Centre AS in Trondheim, Norway, and is now fully operational. The simulator is a full-scale, full-mission simulator with complete bridge and a state-of-the-art visual system. The simulator is used to train crews in navigation and ship handling and is now equipped to make them familiar with the use of hull stress monitoring for decision support in heavy weather conditions. The system will be extended with ice load monitoring functionality in 2009. The setup is in combination with a wave radar and advanced routing system.

February 2008

Light Structures AS participates in the second measurement campaign for the Ice Load Monitoring (ILM) project. The project has developed, installed and are testing a fiber-optic monitoring system on the Norwegian coast guard vessel “KV Svalbard” that provides realtime information in the wheel house on actual ice forces on the ice breaker’s hull.

2007

December 2007 

Light Structures AS launches the high-speed FBG interrogator “FRIMP”, which is designed for dynamic monitoring of signals  up to the MHz range. The first unit has been delivered to Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt and will be used for explosive force tests.

July 2007

Light Structures finalizes commissioning on the two first SENSFIB fiber-optic hull stress monitoring systems for the QatarGas II LNGC newbuilding programme at Hyundai Heavy Industries and Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea.

June 2007

Light Structures signs agency agreement for Greece and Cyprus with H+S Technology, Heliniko.

May 2007

Miros AS, Asker, Norway orders a SENSFIB Plus fiber-optic hull stress monitoring system for integration with the environment monitoring system on the Nexus FPSO under construction at Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea.

March 2007

Light Structures receives the firm order for a comprehensive monitoring system for a full-scale sloshing monitoring research project on a BW Gas LNG Carrier newbuilding.

January 2007

Samsung Heavy Industries, Geoje, South Korea, orders five SENSFIB fiber-optic hull stress monitoring systems for LNG carriers for delivery in 2008.

2006

December 2006

Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan, South Korea orders an additional three SENSFIB fiber-optic hull stress monitoring systems for LNG carriers for delivery in 2007/2008.

December 2006

See our ad on the Ship Technology web pages: Hull Stress Monitoring systems

November 2006

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, South Korea confirms options for six SENSFIB fiber-optic hull stress monitoring systems.