INTENT – Intelligent health monitoring of road infrastructures using bender elements embedded in pavements

• Promoter Entity COFAC – Lusófona University
• Coordinator Ionut Moldovan
• Funding Institution Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) – 2022.06879.PTDC
• Partners University of Lisbon, University of Minho, Built COLAB, Mota-Engil
• Period of funding 2023-2026
• Website https://intent.ulusofona.pt/

The goal of this R&D project is to develop a new bender element for the continuous monitoring of the dynamic stiffness of unbound granular layers, and use it, along with conventional sensors and advanced numerical models, to fuel machine learning algorithms for continuous monitoring of pavements.