L7: Smart City Infrastructure

Question 1

Smart infrastructure

Answer 1

• both specific functional modes - highways, streets, roads and bridges; mass transit;
• airports;
• water supply and water resources;
• wastewater management;
• solid water treatment and disposal;
• electric power generation and transmissionl;
• telecomms; hazardous waste managemnt

Question 2

Hard infrastructure

Answer 2

physcial items like raods and facilities

Question 3

soft infrastructure

Answer 3

institutions needed to maintain the economy, health and cultural and social standars of a nation
- education, finance, health systems, law enforcement,

Question 4

LVP Framework

Answer 4

Provides a formal replicable typology to classify, compare and benchmark smart infrastructure initiatives

Question 5

Technology enhanced Instrastructure Component Interactions

Question 6

Maintenance types

Answer 6

Reactive (too late)
Proactive
- Preventative (age based, too early)
- Predictive (conditions based, right on time)
Prescriptive

Question 7

Prescriptive maintenence

Answer 7

This is the future, it uses advanced analytics to make predictions about maintencance.
- The key difference with prescriptive maintenance is that it acts on reccomendations in addition to making them

Question 8

Sensing technologies

Answer 8

• temperature
• pressure
• flow rate
• water quality
• air quality
• digital imaging
• positioning
• humidity
• energy
• strain
  navigation

Question 9

Asset Management Tech: A National Program in Japan

Question 10

Nondestructive inspection

Answer 10

• Ultra portable ground penetrating rader
• pavement profiling with laser
• Water pipe inspection
• Ultrasound for rail inspection

Question 11

Sensor tech

Answer 11

• Fibre option sensor for SHM
• Concrete sensor
• Mems accelerometer
• Smart layer sensor (piezo electric)

Question 12

Energy harvesting

Answer 12

The process by which energy is derived from external sources.
- solar
- thermal
- wind
- kinteic
Captured and sotre for small wireless, autonomous devices

Question 13

Smart Structural design in Tokyo

Answer 13

Tokyo sky tree building, with smart structure to absord 50% of earthquake vibrations

Question 14

Key tech for road maintenance

Answer 14

An asset management technology
- 3D radar
- multi scale sim
- data assimilation
- survival analysis
- Durable Bridge Decks
- Water jets
- Surfaces finishers
- Precase bridge decks