Projects
A coupled local-global structural health monitoring approach for assessing the structural performance of deteriorated concrete components with reinforcement corrosion. KU Leuven
Worldwide, many civil engineering structures reach the end of their designed lifetime. Reassessing their design lifetime or performance for altered load conditions, raises questions on their remaining capacity. This doctoral research aims at developing a local-global structural health monitoring approach for assessing the performance of reinforced concrete components subjected to degradation, in particular corrosion of the reinforcing steel. ...
Applied Bayesian pre-posterior and life-cycle cost analyses for determining and optimizing the value of structural health monitoring for concrete structures Ghent University
“How safe are our bridges?”Although a lot of research on structural safety has been performed during the last decades, answering this question for existing structures is still a challenging problem engineers are increasingly confronted with. This is mainly because a proper framework for assessing the safety of ageing or even deteriorated structures that can properly take into account the results from inspections and monitoring is still ...
Innovative techniques for integrated structural health monitoring of heritage constructions. KU Leuven
Synergy of advanced structural health monitoring techniques for quality assurance of innovative cementitious composites Vrije Universiteit Brussel
infancy and a complete understanding of their response to damage is not yet available. Although theoretical formulations imply that their macroscopic fracture process starts with matrix cracking, in practice interfacial debonding, delaminations and ...
Strategic Research Programme: Smart Structural Health and Usage Monitoring Strategies for Key Technologies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The initial SRP OPTIMech was focused on Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of Offshore Wind Turbines (OWT). This research track was very successful with respect to scientific output, visibility, external funding and valorisation (IOF BruWind). This renewed SRP project will ...
New materials for percolation-based sensors applicable and resistant in an industrial environment KU Leuven
To guaranty the integrity of structural components at their designed reliability and safety levels, costly maintenance operations are required. Using a network of sensors permanently monitoring the health of these structures, emerging damage can be detected earlier while increasing safety and saving resources. This project, based on recent successful feasibility studies on water detection in aircraft, chemical installations and constructions ...
Economic Manufacturing Process of Recyclable Composite Materials for Durable Hydrogen Storage KU Leuven
ECOHYDRO aims to develop a new energy efficient filament winding process of hydrogen storage tanks using recyclable materials. We will improve the thermoplastic acrylic resin for in-situ polymerization, which has been used for wind energy and marine applications so far, for the high-speed filament winding process by optimizing the UV polymerization of the resin and developing new filament winding tools and equipment. Especially, we will ...
Soft, Self-responsive, Smart MAterials for RoboTs. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Laser ultrasonic testing methods for crack detection and plastic deformation monitoring under dynamic loading stress KU Leuven
The possibility to generate and detect guided acoustic waves in plates, plate-like or tube, cylinder-like structures for the detection of defects such as cracks and delaminations is well recognized in the field of non-destructive testing (NDT). Timely detection of defects in an early stage prevents them to grow to a level on which they cause failure of components, which can go along with great human and economic loss. NDT is becoming more ...