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USES of novel Ultrasonic and Seismic Embedded Sensors for the non-destructive evaluation and structural health monitoring of critical infrastructure and human-built objects

Description du projet

Une solution innovante de surveillance des infrastructures

L’infrastructure constitue les artères de la société moderne, fournissant aux individus et aux organisations toutes les ressources essentielles, des services publics au logement et au transport. Cependant, son entretien peut être difficile. L’évaluation non destructive est le procédé actuellement en usage, mais il perturbe les infrastructures. Une autre solution intéressante consiste à avoir recours à la surveillance de la santé structurelle (SSS) fondée sur l’état en combinaison avec des capteurs. Cependant, ces derniers fournissent actuellement des informations locales, qui se révèlent inefficaces pour la taille et la complexité des infrastructures. Le projet USES2, financé par l’UE, ambitionne de développer une nouvelle solution en réunissant de nouvelles technologies de capteurs, des outils de traitement améliorés et une imagerie fondée sur des formes d’ondes entièrement mécaniques, et en formant les chercheurs à utiliser efficacement ces outils. Cette démarche permettra d’instaurer une surveillance efficace à grande échelle de la santé structurelle des infrastructures, essentielle pour leur utilisation quotidienne.

Objectif

Detecting degradation that endangers the safety and impairs availability of infrastructure and components is currently the task of schedule-driven Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE), this process is however costly and disruptive. The attractive alternative is to use condition based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM).

Current, SHM typically uses sensors that provide local information only, which may be insufficient for detecting interior degradation or require very dense networks. Furthermore, the performance of both in-situ sensing systems and algorithms to process and interpret the sensor data is reduced when subject to Environmental and Operational Conditions (EOC). This limits their large-scale deployment.

USES2 will develop and combine novel emerging sensing technologies (optical fibre and wireless pieozoelectric sensors), advanced processing (compressed sensing, artificial intelligence) and full-mechanical-waveform-based imaging to tackle these issues.

Key to this cross-disciplinary work is a new generation of researchers with skills across sensing and signal processing. They will be trained with a unique combination of “hands-on” multidisciplinary research demonstrators, industrial placements, and courses /workshops on scientific and transferable skills. All of which is facilitated by the broad intersectoral composition of the consortium.

USES2 will produce world class researchers expert in innovative sensing solutions, advanced mechanical wave processing and robust EOC compensation methods. Their skills will be embodied in a series of laboratory demonstrators and in situ industrially relevant experiments spanning three key sectors of European industry: energy [power plants (nuclear, wind), hydrogen storage, pipeline networks for fuel exploration and transport], mobility for citizens (aircraft, automotive industry) and construction (urban subsurface soil, infrastructures).

Coordinateur

UNIVERSITE GUSTAVE EIFFEL
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 565 387,20
Adresse
5 BOULEVARD DESCARTES CAMPUS DE MARNE-LA-VALLE
77454 Marne-La-Vallee
France

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Région
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Seine-et-Marne
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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