A New Light

kvd1 — Wed, 08 May 2019 15:58:19 +0000

Robert Cichocki

Tired of seeing roads being dug up to replace aging pipe infrastructure? Civil engineering research at Queen’s is bringing a new light to innovative, no-dig rehabilitation techniques. In this image, a UV light train is being prepared to help rehabilitate the adjacent corrugated steel pipe. The inside of the pipe has been lined with a fabric fibreglass tube embedded with UV cure resin. When the light train passes through the tube, the UV cures the resin solid and transforms the fabric tube into a solid liner. The new liner and pipe will further undergo buried experiments that will bring new insight into the structural behaviour of these systems.

Location of photograph:

GeoEngineering lab, Queen's University

Prize name:

125th Anniversary Prize – Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Submission Year:

2018-19