BREAKTHROUGH
Innovative instrumentation for port infrastructure edited by CEREMA Centre d’études et d’expertise sur les risques, l’environnement, la mobilité et l’aménagement, Region of Brittany - France
Two projects have won the Region of Brittany’s call for proposals to develop innovative tools for monitoring corrosion and ageing of reinforced concrete structures in ports.
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erema, the public agency of the French Ministry of Ecological Transition specialising in studies on risks, the environment, mobility, and urban planning, has supported the Region of Brittany in launching a call
for projects to develop innovative monitoring and management processes for controlling the corrosion and ageing of reinforced concrete structures common in Breton ports. Port infrastructures are always subject to high levels of stress due to the particularly aggressive environment in which they are located and the operational costs associated with their maintenance, and they must be continuously monitored by their managing authorities. Precisely because of the challenges associated with their use, there is a need for monitoring tools, such as sensors, to prevent and control the ageing and degradation of structures in order to optimise the scheduling of maintenance work. Two sensor development projects were selected and are going to be tested on the Roscoff Pier.
Experimenting with new instrumental solutions The call launched in September 2022 aimed to support innovative projects for the development of new processes for monitoring
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CORROSION PROTECTION | OCTOBER 2023
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