Smart Cement: Development, Testing, Modeling and Real-Time Monitoring

Over three billion metric tons of cement are produced annually worldwide, making concrete the most extensively used construction material. Self-sensing, or smart, cement allows real-time monitoring of performance through the entire service life of a concrete structure, for the detection of changing stresses, contamination, excessive temperature, gas leaks and pre-seismic activity. This is achieved by adding a very small proportion of conductive or semi-conductive fibers, such as carbon fibers to the bulk cement, making it piezoresistive, and enabling changes in the concrete's electrical resistivity in response to shear stress and strain to be monitored.

This state-of-the-art reference work presents experimental results with a realistic theoretical framework, for cement manufactures, concrete technologists and contractors as well as researchers.

每年全球生產超過三十億公噸的水泥，使混凝土成為最廣泛使用的建築材料。自感應或智能水泥可以實時監測混凝土結構在整個使用壽命中的性能，以檢測應力變化、污染、過高溫度、氣體洩漏和地震前活動。這是通過在水泥中添加極少量的導電或半導體纖維（如碳纖維）來實現的，使其具有壓電阻抗，並能夠監測混凝土對剪應力和應變的電阻率變化。

這本最先進的參考書提供了具有現實理論框架的實驗結果，適用於水泥製造商、混凝土技術人員、承包商和研究人員。

Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan (Vipu) is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering with endowed professorship at the University of Houston, where he is the Director of the Center for Innovative Grouting Materials and Technology and a former department chairman of the Texas Hurricane Center for Innovative Technology. Recently he received two patents on 'Smart Cement' and 'Detection and Quantification of Corrosion on Materials'. He has received several national, state and local awards for his research and teaching.

Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan（簡稱Vipu）是休斯頓大學土木與環境工程學系的教授，擁有特設教授職位。他同時也是創新灌漿材料與技術中心的主任，以及德州颶風創新技術中心的前系主任。最近，他獲得了兩項關於「智能水泥」和「材料腐蝕的檢測與量化」的專利。他因其研究和教學工作獲得了多個國家、州和地方的獎項。