Development of sensors and non-destructive analysis to determine the performance of coatings in construction

Tata Steel Europe（TSE）是欧洲第二大预涂钢生产商。为了保持这一地位，该组织不断努力改进现有的产品系列，无论是通过开发建筑行业的一流涂料，改进服务产品还是通过增加功能。由于Tata的优质涂层产品可以提供长达40年的免维护保修，因此如果充分了解不同气候条件下的性能，则至关重要。随着世界向数字化、监测和评估的方向发展，需要使用非常小的传感器，这些传感器可以集成到涂层中，以监测涂层的所有关键方面。项目目标：研究的项目目标是：与外部公司或内部企业合作，评估可用于涂层的传感器技术的现状。使用选定的传感器技术生产Tata Steel Colors涂层，并收集有关涂层性能的数字数据，环境条件并展示与标准测试数据的链接同时使用来自其他行业（如石油和天然气行业）的信息，以评估钢上涂层的质量，以及在什么时候需要维护传感器和非破坏性技术的组合破坏性技术可以在实际建筑物上进行原型制作，以提供建筑物围护结构的数字表现。

Tata Steel Europe (TSE) is the second largest producer of pre-painted steel in Europe. To maintain this position, the organisation is constantly trying to improve the current product range, either through the development of best in class coatings for the construction industry, improved offerings in service or through added functionality. As Tata's premium coated products can offer maintenance free warranties of up to 40 years it is essential that the performance under different climatic conditions if fully understood. As the world moves to more digitisation, monitoring and evaluation, the use of very small sensors that can be incorporated into coatings to monitor all critical aspects of the coating are required. Project Aims:The project aims of the research will be to :Work with external companies or internal businesses to assess what is the current state of sensor technology that could be incorporated into coatingsProduce Tata Steel Colors coatings with the chosen sensor technology and collect digital data on the coating performance, environmental conditions and demonstrate links to standard testing dataIn parallel use information from other industries such as oil and gas industry on the use of non-destructive techniques to assess the quality of a coating on steel and at what point would maintenance be requiredCould the combination of sensors and non-destructive technology be prototyped on an actual building to give a digital performance of the building envelope fabric.