Robust cement-based sensors for smart automation in future infrastructure

结构健康和运行监测是管理已建资产的核心部分。该项目旨在开发具有集成自感知和疏水性的坚固水泥基传感器，并优化其鲁棒性和弹性，以实现未来基础设施中的智能自动化。新的传感器预计将更准确地评估结构健康，监测交通流量，通过增强的压阻性和可维护性降低运营和维护成本，并深入了解内在的自感知和整体防水性。这些成果将改善对性能和服务的预测，并通过显著提高运营和维护效率来大幅降低资产管理成本。

Infrastructural health and operation monitoring are core parts of managing built assets. The project aims to develop robust cement-based sensors with integrated self-sensing and hydrophobicity, and to optimise their robustness and resilience for smart automation in future infrastructure. The new sensors are expected to more accurately assess structural health, monitor traffic-flow, decrease the costs of operation and maintenance through enhanced piezoresistivity and serviceability, and gain insights into intrinsic self-sensing and integral water repellency. The outcomes will improve predictions of performance and service, with major reductions in asset management costs through significantly more-efficient operation and maintenance.