Optimising the serviceable condition of our infrastructure legacy and informing future resilience against climate change are today’s key challenges. Maintaining asset reliability, availability and serviceability necessitates holistic research practice, embracing environmental, material, remote sensing and transportation expertise.
We are researching the use of remote sensing
technologies to advance understanding of the deterioration of highway pavement
surfaces. Our research is focused on the development of non-contact methods to
characterise the surface texture of highway pavements. The ability to measure
highway surface texture with non-contact methods has the potential to improved
existing skid resistance measurement techniques, with other potential promising
applications to the development of autonomous vehicles. At present skid
resistance measurements completed with contact equipment such as SCRIM, are
well understood to vary cyclically with the seasons. We are also using remote
sensors to assist with a long study of the environmental factors influencing
the seasonal variation in contact derived skid resistance measurements.
For more information
and postgraduate opportunities, please contact Vikki Edmondson.
We have worked with
the Heritage Railway Association and various individual railways looking at how
old railway infrastructure can be managed in an operational context by
charities with limited access to funds and generally only volunteer staff.
We have created systems for earthwork and structure monitoring and are currently investigating the use of structure from motion for monitoring changes in slopes and other assets.
For more information and postgraduate opportunities, please contact Professor Martin Crapper.
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