Development of high shrinkage polyethylene terephthalate (PET) shape memory polymer tendons for concrete crack closure
- Submitting institution
-
The University of Bradford
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 80
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
-
10.1088/1361-665X/aa5d66
- Title of journal
- Smart Materials and Structures
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 045006
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0964-1726
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- -
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
-
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-665X/aa5d66
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
7
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- As progress towards self-healing concrete systems, methods were developed to close microcracks in setting concrete using shape memory polymers (SMPs). This will lead to stronger structures needing less steel reinforcement. A production method has been developed for SMPs as highly oriented PET fibres, manufacturing at scale of tens of kilometres and producing shrinkage forces at twice the level of commercially available alternatives Their successful application for crack closure in concrete is demonstrated. This paper resulted from the EPSRC M4L project and the success it describes contributed to the background for the successful award of the RM4L five-year programme grant.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
