Special Issue "Cement-Based Sensors"
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart concrete; functional composites
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Interests: risk and resilience; structural engineering; lifecycle engineering; climate change; sustainability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Various structural health monitoring sensors are currently being investigated to address the reliability of concrete materials and infrastructures at different stages of their service life.
Intrinsic sensors (e.g. cement-based sensors) are increasingly used in smart concrete to self-sense and monitor the damages and cracks, for example, through the measurements of concrete electrical resistivity. This issue will cover recent achievements in the field of intrinsic sensors developed for monitoring the health of concrete materials and infrastructures.
The topics of this issue will focus on intrinsic sensors developed for monitoring parameters, including but not limited to stress/strain, crack/damage, temperature, humidity, pH, corrosion rate, and newly developed cement-based sensors (from laboratory concepts to commercialized products) together with their various benefits and drawbacks as well as research challenges will be covered. It is expected that this issue will provide not only a new insight into design and fabrication of intrinsic sensors but also a perspective of filed application for structural health monitoring, traffic detection and corrosion evaluation.
Dr. Wengui Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- intrinsic sensor
- nanotechnology
- electrical conductivity
- fractional change of resistivity
- piezoresistivity
- structural health monitoring
- traffic detection
- corrosion evaluation