Real-time chloride diffusion coefficient in concrete using embedded resistivity sensors

Service life of concrete infrastructure is severely compromised because of chloride-induced corrosion and measuring the chloride content is crucial to determine the remaining service life. DuraCrete provides a chloride ingress model based on Fick’s 2nd law. Although the diffusion coefficient is modelled as a time-dependent variable, the...

Flow Control Technologies: Needs for Advanced Experimental Testing and Validation

With the increase in fuel prices, flow control technologies are becoming of greater interest as being the means of achieving a technology quantum leap in the next generation of aircrafts, providing the means to achieve significant reduction in drag (fuel burn) and improvements in aircraft performance, shortening thus the path to accomplish the...