PILE-MON

Pre-cast concrete pile monitoring from manufacture to after installation

Coordinatore	BULLIVANT TARANTO LTD    more  Organization address address: OLD SCARVA ROAD TANDRAGEE city: CO ARMAGH contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Simon Cognome: BULLIVANT Email: send email Telefono: -2838841721 Fax: -2838841771
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	1˙404˙485 €
EC contributo	1˙058˙039 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2007-1
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-09-01   -   2011-02-28

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	BULLIVANT TARANTO LTD  Organization address address: OLD SCARVA ROAD TANDRAGEE city: CO ARMAGH contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Simon Cognome: BULLIVANT Email: send email Telefono: -2838841721 Fax: -2838841771	UK (CO ARMAGH)	coordinator	0.00
2	HASWELL MOULDING TECHNOLOGIES LTD  Organization address address: Rice Bridge Industrial Estate Unit 3 Thorpe Le Soken city: ESSEX contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Geoff Cognome: HASWELL Email: send email Telefono: -7809745938	UK (ESSEX)	participant	0.00
3	IMKO INTELLIGENTE MICROMODULE KOHLER GMBH  Organization address address: IM STOCK city: ETTLINGEN contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Kurt Cognome: KOEHLER Email: send email Telefono: -724359161 Fax: -724390807	DE (ETTLINGEN)	participant	0.00
4	INGENOR CONSTRUCCIONES SL  Organization address address: Calle Aragon city: CALAHORRA contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: David Fernandez Cognome: YECORA Email: send email Telefono: -628067273 Fax: -941145520	ES (CALAHORRA)	participant	0.00
5	NYSKOPUNARMIOSTOO ISLANDS  Organization address address: KELDNAHOLT city: REYKJAVIK contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Pall Cognome: ARNASON Telefono: -5228646	IS (REYKJAVIK)	participant	0.00
6	RESEAUMATIQUE SA  Organization address address: RUE DU COMMANDANT MALRAIT city: BERNAY postcode: 30303 contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Jean Pierre Cognome: BRUNEVAL Email: send email Telefono: -232328016 Fax: -232300167	FR (BERNAY)	participant	0.00
7	THE UK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED  Organization address address: MIDDLE ASTON HOUSE city: OXFORDSHIRE contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: John Cognome: DANVERS Telefono: -7920563781 Fax: -1664501545	UK (OXFORDSHIRE)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Concrete piles are being used extensively in the civil construction industry, but there are a lot of issues to be addressed in the integrity testing of these piles. The most commonly used concrete piles are the pre-cast concrete piles and the cast in-situ concrete piles. Cast in-situ concrete piles are limited in the length or depth at which it could be cast unlike pre-cast piles (it can be extended to greater depths using mechanical joints).

Apart from its advantage in installation depth, pre-cast concrete piles are becoming more preferred because of the decreasing length of the individual pile sections before installation. There are equipments and method available for concrete pile integrity testing that is time and cost effective (e.g. ultrasonic testing), but they have limitations especially when testing pre-cast piles. Therefore, our idea is to produce an innovative quality assurance system to enable a cost effective, efficient and reliable means of monitoring the integrity of pre-cast concrete piles throughout its supply chain from manufacturing up until after its installation.

The proposed project would involve the development of: - A means of recording and accessing pile information (pile number, batch number, pile location, periodic integrity check results etc) using a RFID tag on each pile; - A means of verifying a number of piles used to form a segmented pile has been properly driven (installed) into the ground and can hold a given amount of weight.

This would be done by developing an innovative concrete pile manufacturing process to slightly embed a conductive circuit path through the pile common failure areas to allow current passage through the pile, which would allow for the detection of changes in resistivity due to cracks or strain to the concrete pile using a Time-Domain Reflectometry Technique. This could be a means to verify the possibility of reusing a concrete pile if the case arises.