During the next two years, we will collaborate with the company LIC in the project: “Digitized, Automated and Intelligent Systems for the Shoring of Large Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Structures”, funded by the Valencian Agency for Innovation (AVI).
This project will develop a new digitized, automated and intelligent system able to monitor processes in real-time to transform the traditional construction systems for building bridges and viaducts into industrialized systems that benefit from emerging technologies associated with Construction 4.0. This development will also increase productivity in all processes and operations involved in the execution of these large concrete structures, as well as improve safety by minimizing errors and risks associated with the traditional construction industry.
Our work focuses on the real-time diagnosis of the state of the falsework and its interaction with the bridge. This will involve evaluating the possible risks of failure based on the measurements of specific sensors whose location will be optimized. We will also work on laboratory tests in which we will investigate the capacity of the falsework to resist horizontal actions. These tests will also serve to validate the proposed solution.
The laboratory tests will focus on 3 different types of shoring towers with different heights. Specifically, towers consisting of 1, 2 and 4 modules will be tested to reach heights of approximately 3m, 6m and 12m respectively. These tests will be carried out in the ICITECH-UPV laboratories, which has a reaction wall capable of applying horizontal loads at the previously specified heights.
This project, with a total budget of €466,047, has been funded by the Valencian Agency for Innovation (AVI) and will last for two years.
We hope that our contribution to the project will help to increase the safety of bridges and viaducts during construction, as well as to create new tools for real-time control of temporary structures used for construction.
