Predictive maintenance and its applications in civil engineering structures:A review

Structural health monitoring and performance prediction are crucial for smart disaster mitigation and intelligent management of structures throughout their lifespan.Recent advancements in predictive maintenance strategies within the industrial manufacturing industry have inspired similar innovations in civil engineering,aiming to improve structural performance evaluation,damage diagnosis,and capacity prediction.This review delves into the framework of predictive maintenance and examines various existing solutions,focusing on critical areas such as data acquisition,condition monitoring,damage prognosis,and maintenance planning.Results from real-world applications of predictive maintenance in civil engineering,covering high-rise structures,deep foundation pits,and other infrastructure,are presented.The challenges of implementing predictive maintenance in civil engineering structures under current technology,such as model interpretability of data-driven methods and standards for predictive maintenance,are explored.Future research prospects within this area are also discussed.

Effect of waste concrete with different strength on mechanical properties of recycled fine aggregate mortar

The influence of source concrete (SC) with different compression strengths on the workability and mechanical properties of recycled mortar made with river sand substituted by 100% fine recycled concrete aggregates (FRCA) is experimentally investigated. The basic physical performance test shows that with the increase in SC strength, FRCA exhibit lower water absorption and crushing index, meanwhile keeping higher densities. Mechanical property tests, including compressive strength, flexural strength and uniaxial compressive stress-strain tests, show that compressive strength,flexural strength and elasticity modulus of recycled sand mortars increase roughly with the increase in SC strength. The proposed mixture design method demonstrates that all of the components can be kept as the same as those in natural mortar mixture design and FRCA must be pre-wetted before making mortar mixture. Meanwhile, the reuse of higher strength SC can ensure that recycled mortar mixtures are able to achieve similar mechanical performance when compared to natural mortar designs.

Design Method of Rigid Blast Wall Under the Explosion of Vehicular Bomb

Blast wall can prevent vehicles from approaching the protective building and can reduce the destructive power of shock wave to a certain extent.However,majority of studies on blast walls have some shortcomings.The explosion test data are few.Most exsiting studies focus on the propagation of shock wave and the influence of blast wall on the propagation of shock wave.Discussion on the main parameters of blast wall design is meagre,such as the design of safety distance,the distance from the blast wall to the protective building,height and width of the blast wall.This paper uses the finite element programme LS-DYNA to design the blast wall.To analyze the convergence of the finite element model and to determine the mesh size of the model,this paper establishes several finite element models with different sizes of meshes to verify the model.Then,the overpressure distribution of the shock wave on the protective building is simulated to implement the blast wall design.The geometric parameters of the blast wall are preliminarily determined.And the influence of the safety distance on the overpressure of the building surface is mainly discussed,so as to determine the final design parameters.When the overpressure is less than 2 kPa,it is considered that there will be no damage to people caused by flying fragments.Eventually,the blast wall height is 3 m,the thickness is 1 m,and the safety distance is 35 m.The proposed method is used to demonstrate the design method,and the final design parameters of the blast wall can thus be used for reference.