Commercialisation of Smart Foundation System

智能基础系统商业化

• 批准号: EP/H007423/1
• 负责人: Kenichi Soga
• 金额: $ 11.28万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FH007423%2F1
• 关键词: Commercialisation; Smart; Foundation; System

The construction industry consumes around 400 million tonnes of materials every year, a quarter of all raw materials used in the economy. It also produces annually three times the amount of waste generated by all UK households combined. The industry produces 90 million tonnes of inert waste every year, and approximately 10% of UK carbon dioxide emissions are associated with the manufacture and transport of construction materials and the construction processes. It is therefore important that the construction industry changes the way it designs and builds to reduce its environmental impact and to enable the UK to meet its carbon dioxide reduction commitments. The main theme of this proposal is to achieve the goal of this initiative from the geotechnical aspects of building construction using the outcome of an EPSRC project Smart Foundations with Distributed Fibre Optics Technology (EP/D040000/1) . The project delivered the following research outcomes: (i) a foundation design tool that optimises the layout and geometries of foundations (both piles and raft), thereby minimising the use of construction materials while achieving similar building performance, (ii) a foundation design tool that considers reuse of existing foundations for new buildings, and (iii) an inexpensive optical fibre strain measurement system to ensure the foundation based on the optimised design is performing as predicted in both short- and long-terms. This follow-on project aims to commercialise the research outcomes by converting the complex algorithms developed on research-based platforms to more user-friendly formats so they can be used directly by the industry. It consists of the following two major efforts: (a) development of middleware that converts raw Optical Fibre Strain (OFS) data to engineering performance data and (ii) coding of the foundation design tool into C++. The expected outcome is an engineering software package that aids the design and optimisation analyses of new and reuse foundations, determines the need and optimum locations of foundation instrumentation, and converts raw OFS data into engineering data for short- and long-term monitoring endeavours.

建筑业每年消耗约4亿吨材料，占经济中使用的所有原材料的四分之一。它每年产生的废物是英国所有家庭产生的废物总和的三倍。该行业每年产生9000万吨惰性废物，英国约10%的二氧化碳排放量与建筑材料的制造和运输以及建筑过程有关。因此，建筑业必须改变其设计和建造方式，以减少其对环境的影响，并使英国能够履行其二氧化碳减排承诺。本提案的主题是利用EPSRC项目“采用分布式光纤技术的智能基础”（EP/D 040000/1）的成果，从建筑施工的岩土工程方面实现这一倡议的目标。该项目取得了以下研究成果：（i）优化基础布局和几何形状的基础设计工具（桩和筏），从而尽量减少建筑材料的使用，同时达到类似的建筑性能，（ii）基础设计工具，考虑重新使用现有基础用于新建筑物，以及（iii）廉价的光纤应变测量系统，以确保基于优化设计的基础在短期和长期内都如预测的那样运行。这个后续项目旨在将研究成果商业化，将基于研究平台开发的复杂算法转换为更用户友好的格式，以便行业直接使用。它包括以下两个主要工作：（a）开发中间件，将原始光纤应变（OFS）数据转换为工程性能数据;（ii）将基础设计工具编码为C++。预期的成果是一个工程软件包，有助于设计和优化分析新的和再利用的基础，确定基础仪器的需要和最佳位置，并将原始OFS数据转换为工程数据，用于短期和长期的监测工作。

项目成果

Geotechnical Safety and Risk IV

岩土安全与风险 IV

• DOI: 10.1201/b16058-53
• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Ryuo S

Thermal Strain Sensing of Concrete Piles Using Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry

• DOI: 10.1520/gtj20120176
• 发表时间: 2014-03-01
• 期刊: GEOTECHNICAL TESTING JOURNAL
• 影响因子: 1.6
• 作者: Mohamad, H.;Soga, K.;Amatya, B.
• 通讯作者: Amatya, B.