Commercialisation of Smart Foundation System

智能基础系统商业化

基本信息

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

项目摘要

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.

该建筑行业每年消耗约4亿吨材料，占经济中所有原材料的四分之一。它还每年产生的三倍是所有英国家庭共同产生的废物量。该行业每年产生9000万吨的惰性废物，大约10％的英国二氧化碳排放量与建筑材料和建筑过程的制造和运输有关。因此，重要的是，建筑行业要改变其设计和建造方式，以减少环境影响，并使英国能够符合其二氧化碳减少承诺。该提案的主题是通过使用EPSRC项目智能基金会（EP/D040000/1）的EPSRC项目智能基金会的结果来实现该计划的目标。该项目提供了以下研究结果：（i）一种基础设计工具，优化基础的布局和几何形状（堆堆积和筏），从而最大程度地减少建筑材料的使用，同时实现相似的建筑物性能，（ii）基础设计工具，一种基础设计工具，以确保基于新建筑物的基础以及（iii II）的优化型号的重新使用，以及（iii II），（iii III），（iii II II），（iii III）的基础设计工具（iii）。短期和长期。这个后续项目旨在通过将基于研究平台上开发的复杂算法转换为更具用户友好的格式，从而将研究结果商业化，以便它们可以直接被行业使用。它包括以下两项重大努力：（a）将原始光纤应变（OFS）数据转换为工程性能数据以及（ii）将基础设计工具编码为C ++的中间件。预期的结果是一个工程软件包，可帮助新基金会和重用基础的设计和优化分析，确定基础仪器的需求和最佳位置，并将RAW OFS数据转换为工程数据，以进行短期和长期监测工作。