Application of Intelligent Materials in Inspection, Repair and Reinforcement of Infrastructure: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2025) | Viewed by 1400
Special Issue Editors
Interests: evaluation; rehabilitation; steel bridges; SMAs; CFRP; smart materials
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Interests: steel structures; high-performance materials; SMAs; fire resistance; repair
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Dear Colleagues,
Civil engineering infrastructures often face great demands regarding strengthening and repairing during their service lives, especially due to fatigue and corrosion damages or being exposed to fire and earthquake disasters. Nowadays, intelligent materials such as shape memory alloys, smart materials, and fiber-reinforced composites have great potential in the inspection, rehabilitation and improvement of infrastructures, enhancing their long-term performance. Taking Fe–Mn–Si alloys as an example, the martensitic transformation and its reverse transformation, which produces considerable recovery stress (300~500 MPa), can be utilized as prestress processes for the local repair of fatigue cracks in orthotropic steel bridge decks and in globally upgrading down-wrapped concrete/steel/composite beams. In this Special Issue, in comparison with traditional inspection and strengthening methods, mechanisms, techniques and applications of intelligent materials on the rehabilitation of infrastructures will be introduced and classified in detail.
Dr. Xu Jiang
Dr. Xuhong Qiang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- steel bridges
- intelligent materials
- fatigue
- corrosion
- inspection
- rehabilitation
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