Cambridge Material Testing Solutions has been established to develop software and equipment that let industrial clients assess the condition of their metal assets.
Commercialisation firm Frontier IP yesterday revealed it has taken a 24% stake in Cambridge Material Testing Solutions, a UK-based metals evaluation software spinout from University of Cambridge.
Founded in May 2018, Cambridge Material Testing is developing technology to assess the condition of metal components in industrial sectors such as oil and gas, aerospace and nuclear facility management.
The spinout’s software suite, Sempid, is expected to automatically interpret the metal’s strength and remaining working life when a hard tip is inserted, in an already-common laboratory probe known as the indentation test.
Cambridge Material also plans to introduce its own indentation test equipment with better flexibility and portability, including the ability to assess complex components, and the option of installation at the client’s facility to conduct evaluations on site.
The spinout is based on work by James Dean, coordinator of the Centre for Scientific Computing in Computational Methods for Materials Science. The…
