New Technology for Repairing and Monitoring with Smart Cement Grout-PPT Presentation

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The presentation describes the development of “smart” cement grout for repairing infrastructure and monitoring its condition in real time. Conventional cement and concrete can fail through corrosion, degradation, cracking, or poor cementing, with potentially serious consequences. Embedding sensing capability in cement grout could help detect changes during curing and under stress.<br /><br />The smart grout is designed to be chemo-, thermo-, and piezoresistive: its electrical properties respond to chemical changes, temperature, and mechanical loading. Electrical resistance or resistivity can therefore be used to monitor material behavior. The research focused on grout with a water-to-cement ratio of 0.8 and examined curing, compressive-stress response, and performance after repair. A conductive filler was also investigated.<br /><br />During curing, resistivity changed over time, initially decreasing before rising sharply. The maximum change in sensing resistivity after one day was 108%, indicating potential use for curing monitoring and quality control. Under compressive stress, the grout’s resistivity increased, confirming its piezoresistive response.<br /><br />The researchers used Vipulanandan p-q models to describe both curing and the relationship between compressive stress and sensing properties. The models closely matched the experimental results. Repaired smart cement recovered piezoresistive behavior, regained 68% of its strength, and showed 53% piezoresistive axial strain at a failure stress of 18.05 MPa.<br /><br />Overall, the work presents smart cement grout as a potential material for repair and ongoing health monitoring of structures such as oil wells, pipelines, roads, dams, and buildings.

Keywords

smart cement grout

infrared monitoring

piezoresistive

resistivity

cement curing

structural health monitoring

conductive filler

compressive stress

repair materials

Vipulanandan p-q model