UMass Lowell team leader Assoc. Prof. Tzuyang Yu appeared on GoLocal LIVE where he spoke to partnering with a Massachusetts-based research and development company to create new, cost-effective sensor-laden textiles that can be used to monitor the structural health and integrity of vital infrastructures across the country, including buildings and skyscrapers, roadways, bridges, tunnels, railway tracks, dam, and pipelines.
Yu, along with Prof. Pradeep Kurup of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Prof. Xingwei Wang of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is collaborating with researchers from Saint-Gobain, a multinational corporation with an R&D center based in Northborough to develop fabrics integrated with optical fibers and sensors. These “sensing fabrics” can be applied to existing structures to monitor strain or detect cracks in their early stages, thereby minimizing maintenance costs, environmental impacts and disruptions to the people’s lives and businesses.
Yu spoke to Lowell's rich tradition in textiles -- as well as UMass Lowell's growing expertise in research and development.
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