In-concrete integrated sensing and communication antenna design for concrete maturity monitoring
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- Jasper Goethals (UGent) , José Roberto Tenório Filho (UGent) , Stijn Matthys (UGent) , Günter Vermeeren (UGent) , Wout Joseph (UGent) and David Plets (UGent)
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- The collapse of the 26-story Skyline Plaza in Fairfax County has shown the importance of concrete maturing monitoring. Current in-concrete monitoring devices have the disadvantage that they need to be scanned locally, an unpractical and costly procedure. Therefore, we propose an integrated sensing and communication antenna estimating the decrease in permittivity as proxy for the moisture content of the concrete and communicating these data with a far away base station. As the antenna does not only serve as a communicaton device, but also as a sensing device, the size of the monitoring device is minimized. The proposed antenna design is shown to enable in-to-out-concrete communication to an NB-IoT base station in the 3GPP band B26 (814 MHz-849 MHz) while simultaneously detecting the decrease relative permittivity in the concrete, which can be linked to the moisture content and on his turn to the concrete maturity. The reflection coefficient simulations of the antenna are validated with measurements with the antenna embedded in concrete and results in a less than 0.3% error from the simulation. The resonance frequency shifts 23 MHz during the curing of the concrete during the first 24 hours of the curing of the concrete.
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- Structural monitoring, Sensors, Concrete, Maturity, Resistivity
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01H54FTBGCPK67TNVYPN16TZ9N
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- Goethals, Jasper, et al. “In-Concrete Integrated Sensing and Communication Antenna Design for Concrete Maturity Monitoring.” IWAT2023 : The 2023 International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Proceedings, 2023.
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- Goethals, J., Tenório Filho, J. R., Matthys, S., Vermeeren, G., Joseph, W., & Plets, D. (2023). In-concrete integrated sensing and communication antenna design for concrete maturity monitoring. IWAT2023 : The 2023 International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Proceedings. Presented at the International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), Aalborg, Denmark.
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- Goethals, Jasper, José Roberto Tenório Filho, Stijn Matthys, Günter Vermeeren, Wout Joseph, and David Plets. 2023. “In-Concrete Integrated Sensing and Communication Antenna Design for Concrete Maturity Monitoring.” In IWAT2023 : The 2023 International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Proceedings.
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- Goethals, Jasper, José Roberto Tenório Filho, Stijn Matthys, Günter Vermeeren, Wout Joseph, and David Plets. 2023. “In-Concrete Integrated Sensing and Communication Antenna Design for Concrete Maturity Monitoring.” In IWAT2023 : The 2023 International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Proceedings.
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- 1.Goethals J, Tenório Filho JR, Matthys S, Vermeeren G, Joseph W, Plets D. In-concrete integrated sensing and communication antenna design for concrete maturity monitoring. In: iWAT2023 : the 2023 International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Proceedings. 2023.
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- [1]J. Goethals, J. R. Tenório Filho, S. Matthys, G. Vermeeren, W. Joseph, and D. Plets, “In-concrete integrated sensing and communication antenna design for concrete maturity monitoring,” in iWAT2023 : the 2023 International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Proceedings, Aalborg, Denmark, 2023.
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