Wireless charging is an attractive technology that is expected to promote customer acceptance of electric vehicles in urban environment because it can improve convenience and sustainability. The dynamic properties and the long-term structural behaviour of these particular infrastructures call for in depth investigations, in order to define specific requirements for the installation of the system, as well as for its maintenance, lifecycle analysis and monitoring. Currently, several technologies exist that integrate dynamic inductive charging systems within the infrastructure, ranging from rails with box-section to buried solutions. A wide-range discussion will be provided on how to assess the structural performance of electric roads (e-roads), including numerical strategies for the estimation of their lifetime. Results of simulations will be presented to compare e-roads with traditional ones (t-roads). Finally, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) strategies for e-roads will be outlined. Indeed, a SHM strategy integrated with lifecycle management is essential to calibrate structural assessment and prediction, to optimise the maintenance of infrastructure and, possibly, to operate infrastructure systems beyond their original design life.

Strategies for Assessing the Structural Performance of Electric Road Infrastructures / Ceravolo, Rosario; Miraglia, Gaetano; Surace, Cecilia. - CD-ROM. - (2016). (Intervento presentato al convegno 6th Civil Structural Health Monitoring (CSHM-6) annual ISHMII workshop tenutosi a Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK) nel May 26-27, 2016).

Strategies for Assessing the Structural Performance of Electric Road Infrastructures

CERAVOLO, Rosario;MIRAGLIA, GAETANO;SURACE, Cecilia
2016

Abstract

Wireless charging is an attractive technology that is expected to promote customer acceptance of electric vehicles in urban environment because it can improve convenience and sustainability. The dynamic properties and the long-term structural behaviour of these particular infrastructures call for in depth investigations, in order to define specific requirements for the installation of the system, as well as for its maintenance, lifecycle analysis and monitoring. Currently, several technologies exist that integrate dynamic inductive charging systems within the infrastructure, ranging from rails with box-section to buried solutions. A wide-range discussion will be provided on how to assess the structural performance of electric roads (e-roads), including numerical strategies for the estimation of their lifetime. Results of simulations will be presented to compare e-roads with traditional ones (t-roads). Finally, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) strategies for e-roads will be outlined. Indeed, a SHM strategy integrated with lifecycle management is essential to calibrate structural assessment and prediction, to optimise the maintenance of infrastructure and, possibly, to operate infrastructure systems beyond their original design life.
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