Self-damage or/and stress-sensing concrete is a promising area of research for measuring the electromechanical response of structural materials using more robust sensors. However, the copper and silver paste sensors widely used in such applications c...
The integration of real-time monitoring capabilities into concrete materials offers significant potential for improving the safety and durability of building infrastructure. This study investigates the real-time electromechanical behavior of steel fi...
This paper presents a concept of a Self-sensing Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (SCFRP) system, which integrates the piezoceramic transducers with the common concrete strengthening materials, CFRP fabric. This integration provides the SCFRP fabric wi...
Concrete infrastructure requires continuous monitoring to ensure any new damage or repair failures are detected promptly. A cost-effective combination of monitoring and maintenance would be highly beneficial in the rehabilitation of existing infrastr...
Within EU project LightCoce (Building an Ecosystem for the upscaling of lightweight multi-functional concrete and ceramic materials and structures), RISE will be running a Pilot Line to allow the design and development of materials, elements of Cellu...
To study the variation law of ultrasonic parameters of self-compacting concrete before and after damage under uniaxial compression test conditions, the C30 self-compacting concrete blocks stored for 7 days and 28 days were subjected to ultrasonic non...
In order to solve the problem of intelligent detection of damage of modern concrete structures under complex constraints, an improved self-organizing mapping (SOM) neural network model algorithm was proposed to construct an accurate identification mo...
Monitoring damage in concrete structures is crucial for maintaining the health of structural systems. The implementation of computer vision has been the key for providing accurate and quantitative monitoring. Recent development uses the robustness of...
The right selection of building materials plays an important role when designing a building to fall within the definition of sustainable development. One of the most commonly used construction materials is concrete. Its production causes a high energ...
Structural Health Monitoring is aimed at transforming civil structures into self-diagnosing systems able to automatically reveal the occurrence of a fault or a damage after a critical event such as an earthquake. While data science is presently exper...
This paper aims to demonstrate the self-protection and self-sensing functionalities of self-compacted concrete (SCC) containing carbon nanotubes (CNT) and carbon microfibers (CMF) in a hybrid system. The ability for self-sensing at room temperature a...
How to prevent the cracking of tunnel lining concrete under a high-temperature and low-humidity environment has gradually become a challenge faced by the engineering community. Actually, the concrete structure will be restrained, which easily leads t...
The corrosion damage of rebars is a leading cause of structural failure in reinforced concrete structures. Timely detection and evaluation of corrosion damage are crucial for ensuring structural safety. The self-magnetic flux leakage (SMFL) technolog...
The importance of the safety and sustainability of structures has attracted more attention to the development of smart materials. The presence of small cracks (<300 µm in width) in concrete is approximately inevitable. These cracks surely da...
In order to explore the crack development mechanism and damage self-repairing capacity of ECC beams reinforced with hybrid bars, the smart aggregate-based active sensing approach were herein adopted to conduct damage monitoring of ECC beams under cyc...
To extend understanding of the bonding behavior of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) and steel bars in self-compacting concrete (SCC), an experimental series consisting of 36 direct pull-out tests monitored by acoustic emission (AE) were performed in th...
Aimed at improving the production efficiency of tetrahedron-like pervious frames for the river revetment, self-compacting steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) was applied to strengthen the tensile resistance of concrete to remove conventional steel...
Cracking is one of the main ways that concrete ages, allowing pollutants to seep within and potentially lowering the physical and mechanical strength and endurance of concrete structures. One of the healing procedures that merits research is the use...
Cracks and dents in concrete structures are core defects that threaten building safety, but the existing YOLO series algorithms face a huge bottleneck in complex engineering scenarios. Tiny cracks are susceptible to background texture interference, l...
The health diagnosis of agricultural structures is critical to detecting damages such as cracks in concrete, corrosion, spalling, and delamination. Agricultural structures are susceptible to environmental degradation due to frequent exposure to water...
The rheological properties of fresh cement paste with different content of graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs), different shear rate cycles and resting time was investigated. The rheological data were fitted by the Bingham model, Modified Bingham model, He...
Nanomodified smart cement-based sensors are an emerging self-sensing technology for the structural health monitoring (SHM) of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. To date, several literature works demonstrated their strain-sensing capabilities, which...
To address challenges such as complex background interference, limited long-range modeling capabilities of CNNs, and poor generalization in steel-concrete cross-material scenarios, this study proposes an enhanced detection framework. This framework i...
Fiber-reinforced self-compacting concrete (FR-SCC) incorporating granite powder (GP), an expansive agent (EA), steel fibers (SFs), and polypropylene fibers (PPFs) was investigated for potential pre-cast tunnel-segment applications. Sixteen mixtures,...