Abstract
The objective of this project is to investigate the transferability of a recently-developed workflow for intelligent road structural health monitoring to real roads with different pavement structures, traffic conditions, and sensing technologies. First, the project will commission two new test roads in Flanders equipped with strain gauges, fiber Bragg grating sensors, and piezoelectric sensors by finalizing their data acquisition, communication network, and data transfer system. Then, temperature and strain datasets from two international accelerated pavement testing facilities and multiple test sections in Flanders will be used for analysis. The collected datasets will be analyzed to determine which components of the monitoring workflow are robust across different conditions and which are sensitive to variations in pavement structure, traffic loading, or sensing technology. This will provide a better understanding of the methodology's applicability and identify aspects requiring further refinement. Finally, the project will demonstrate that the developed monitoring workflow can move beyond laboratory validation towards practical deployment on operational road infrastructure.
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