Faculty of Engineering – University of Kufa Official Site – Faculty of Engineering
The lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Kufa, Prof. Dr. Hamid Athab Al-Jameel chaired the discussion committee for the master thesis entitled: “Utilization of CF-and Steel Fiber-Based Cementitious Composites for Traffic Monitoring, A Field Study” for the student Dargham Abdel-Ali Ghadban in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Technology, where the committee was formed in addition to the presidency of Idan from both Prof. Dr. Mustafa Shahran from Hajtiiba University in Turkey as a member, and Assistant Pro. Dr. Zainab Ibrahim from the University of Technology as a member, and Prof. Dr. Hassan Hammoudi Johnny, Head of the Department Civil Engineering University of Technology as a member and supervisor, and Ass. Pro. Dr. Ali Majeed from the University of Technology as a member and supervisor.
The student studied the development of new technology based on the self-sensing properties of concrete materials to form multifunctional smart cement compounds embedded in the layers of pavement, where they can be used to sense the pressure imposed by the vehicles during movement on the sections of the pavement.
Dr. Al-Jameel indicated that the cement sensor models were laboratory investigated using two types of conductive materials: carbon and iron fibers, by conducting several experiments to assess the best response to the sensor by applying different scenarios of similar loads to traffic loads, after which experimental fieldwork was carried out at the University of Technology to verify the response of these sensors to the load placed on them by passenger car tires. After the success of these sensors to sense the impacted loads, the work was transferred to the actual reality by embedding cement sensors within the layers of paving on a vital road inside Baghdad (Al-Jaysh Channel Road), and the ability of these sensors to monitor the movement of Traffic and weight of trucks on the move.
