Antonella D'Alessandro

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic investigation on various procedures for fabricating carbon-nanotube-cement pastes, mortars and concretes is presented, in order to identify a processing procedure that, without sonication, might be potentially effective for fabrication of self-sensing cement-based composites in a way that is compatible with large scale deployment.

TL;DR: In this article, the applicability of carbon nanotube-cement-based sensors for measuring dynamically varying strain in concrete structures is explored, and the results demonstrate that the sensors output retains all dynamic features of the input thus providing useful information for SHM and encouraging the transformation of structures into infinite sets of potential sensors with enhanced durability and limited access issues.

TL;DR: Understanding of the proposed sensor is furthered by evaluating its performance at vibration-based monitoring of large-scale structures, and results show that the sensor can be used to detect fundamental modes and dynamic input.

TL;DR: In this article, a prismatic sensors made of cement paste doped with carbon nanotubes have been proposed as embedded sensors for concrete structures for structural health monitoring of concrete structures.

TL;DR: In this paper, a micromechanics model is presented to predict the piezoresistive properties of CNT cement-based nanocomposites, with the consideration of waviness and non-uniform distributions of nanoinclusions.