Innovative Carbon-Doped Composite Pavements with Sensing Capability and Low Environmental Impact for Multifunctional Infrastructures

Recently, smart composites that serve as multi-functional materials have gained popularity for structural and infrastructural applications yielding condition assessment capabilities. An emerging application is the monitoring prediction of fatigue road infrastructure, where these systems may benefit from ability to detect estimate vehicle loads via weigh-in-motion (WIM) sensing without interrupting traffic flow. However, off-the-shelf WIM can be improved in terms cost durability, both on hardware software sides. This study proposes a novel pavement material utilized embedded system. The consists composite fabricated using an eco-friendly synthetic binder called EVIzero, doped with carbon microfiber inclusions. piezoresistive and, therefore, has strain-sensing Compared other existing materials, it not affected by polarization exhibits more rapid response time. evaluates capabilities according needs A tailored data acquisition setup distributed line electrodes developed detection moving loads. aim paper demonstrate newly proposed suitability system WIM. Results promising ready implemented field further validation real world.