Carbon fiber-based cementitious composites for traffic detection and weighing in motion

Abstract EN

New self-sensing cementitious composites embedded in the highway pavement for vehicle detection and weigh during motion is fabricated.

Smart carbon fiber (CF) reinforced cement-based materials with high sensitive property are used as sensors.

These smart composites may be able to detect the traffic and sense the weight in motion, thanks to their piezoresistive property.

Cement-based sensors capability to vehicle detection was investigated in a real field at the University of Technology campus.

Findings clarify that the CF-Based cementitious composites provide have a great potential to use as sensors for detect traffic and its composition also it possibly identifies different vehicular axle loadings (weigh during motion).