Material Technologies’ flagship product, the Electrochemical Fatigue Sensor (EFS), has enormous potential to capitalize in a large untapped market. The EFS technology can identify small, growing cracks in metal structures more accurately and more precisely than the methods currently used. Using this advanced technology, engineers can direct available repair funds to their best use.
Federal law requires periodic bridge inspection and there are approximately 200,000 steal highway bridges that are subject to inspection every two years, not to mention other structures with required periodic inspection such as tunnels. Material Technologies is positioned with the right product at the right time as the average age of US bridges is more than 50 years and most US bridges were designed to only last for 50 years.
In addition to its EFS sensor, the Company has another unique and innovative product, which is designed to be used between bridge inspections. This product, the Fatigue Fuse, is placed on a high-stress area of a metal structure to monitor additional cracking in real-time. As a metal structure stresses and strains, notches of the Fatigue Fuse crack and separate at calibrated fractions to indicate the precise fatigue level.
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