The use of novel thick-film sensors in the estimation of soil structural changes through the correlation of soil electrical conductivity and soil water content

Accepted/In Press date: 30 November 2019

e-pub ahead of print date: 3 December 2019

Published date: 1 January 2020

Additional Information: Funding Information: The authors wish to thank the UK Natural Environmental Research Council (Grant Number NE/I006877 ) and the Network Rail Strategic University Partnership in Future Infrastructure Systems for partial funding of this work. The authors would also like to gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the Quadro P5000 GPU used for this research. Marios Sophocleous is a Special Scientist at the University of Cyprus since 2016. He obtained his Masters of Engineering degree from the University of Southampton in Mechatronics and his PhD in Thick-Film Underground Sensors in 2016 from the same University. During his final year of his PhD, he worked as a Patent Analyst and innovation consultant on systematic innovation techniques and IP management. He won two scholarships during his undergraduate degree for being ranked in the top 10 students of the year and won the Jim Graham Prize for the Best Experimental project of the year for his individual project. He has already won several scholarships during his PhD and PostDoc and has been nominated for the Outstanding Young Engineer Award 2019 of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. He is an active member of the IEEE, whilst he has been invited multiple times as a technical and/or organizing committee member for major conferences. Moreover, he is a member of the editorial advisory board of Sensors & Actuators A: Physical and Microelectronics International journals since 2018. John Atkinson is a Professor of Engineering Science in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton UK where his research interests include thick film technology, electronic instrumentation and sensors. In particular he has been working in the field of thick film (screen printed) sensor arrays for many years. He is editor of the scientific journal Microelectronics International. Joel Smethurst is an Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton, and a member of the Infrastructure Research Group. His main technical interest is in geotechnical transport infrastructure, including the long-term performance, deterioration/aging, and failure of geotechnical structures, and their upgrade and repair. Joel completed his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Southampton in 2004, and was previously a Research Fellow (2004–2012), and Lecturer (2012–2018) at the University. He is an Assistant Scientific Editor of Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, has been a reviewer for more than 20 international scientific journals, and for research councils in the UK and abroad. Gerardo Espíndola graduated in 2010 from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon in México with a BSc degree in Mechatronic Engineering. In 2015 he completed his MSc in Advanced Mechanical Engineering with Mechatronics as main topic in the University of Southampton and joined the iPhD program at CDT-SIS group. The aim of his research is to develop novel sensors using embedding rugged thick film electrodes in earthworks trying to detect changes in soil parameters such as conductivity and water content and determine if those changes are indicative of earthwork displacement. Alessia Ingenito obtained her MSc Degree in Structural & Geotechnical Engineering at University of Naples "Federico II", II Level Professional Master Degree in Infrastructure Engineering and Railway Systems at "Sapienza" University of Rome. She is now a Real Estate specialist at FS Italiane Group (the Italian National Railway Company) and she is involved in the development and regeneration processes for the South Italy Urban Areas, with special focus on stations and transportation hubs. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Elsevier B.V.

Keywords: Soil conductivity, Thick-film sensors, Water content

Local EPrints ID: 436318

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/436318

DOI: doi:10.1016/j.sna.2019.111773

ISSN: 0924-4247

PURE UUID: 2680c06a-67c4-476d-918e-34e1c768f39b

ORCID for John Atkinson: orcid.org/0000-0003-3411-8034

Date deposited: 06 Dec 2019 17:30

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