...
- 80% of the large retaining walls are at the end of design life time, .
- We have great sustainability ambitions ambitions.
- There is an urgent need to respond on the consequences of climate change.
With the project KaKaLaWa, we want to reduce emissions by reducing the use of steel and concrete by better utilization of existing structures and better a more sustainable design of new structures.
For this reason, we are applying 'smart' walls: walls equiped equipped with sensors that give that give insight in the behaviour of the quay walls during the construction phase.
However, the understanding of the measurements during the serviceability phase is still complicated.
...
A 'smart' quay wall will be monitored during the construction- and dredging phase, and will subsequently loaded by 80% of its design load and unloaded.
Field test: loading with 80% of the design load
...