Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: A structural supercapacitor, and methods of manufacturing, composed of a conductive composite is described herein. An embodiment of the composite has a controllable transport porosity, that enables transport of electrical charge, via electrolyte solution, to a distributed conductive network within the composite. The distributed conductive network has a controllable storage porosity that enables the storage of electrical charge. The conductive composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement de-icing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire, or concrete trace.

Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: A method of monitoring quality of a road segment from driver data is provided. The method includes receiving, by a server over a network, the driver data for a road segment from one or more sensing units in one or more vehicles. The method also includes calculating, in one or more computing devices, one or more quantitative pavement surface characteristics of the road segment from the driver data using a probabilistic inverse analysis framework. The method also includes identifying, in the one or more computing devices, one or more quantitative vehicle properties of the one or more vehicles from the driver data using the probabilistic inverse analysis framework. The method then includes estimating, in the one or more computing devices, one or more road quality characteristics of the road segment based on at least one of the quantitative pavement surface characteristics of the road segment and the quantitative vehicle properties of the one or more vehicles.

Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: A method of monitoring quality of a road segment from driver data is provided. The method includes receiving, by a server over a network, the driver data for a road segment from one or more sensing units in one or more vehicles. The method also includes calculating, in one or more computing devices, one or more quantitative pavement surface characteristics of the road segment from the driver data using a probabilistic inverse analysis framework. The method also includes identifying, in the one or more computing devices, one or more quantitative vehicle properties of the one or more vehicles from the driver data using the probabilistic inverse analysis framework. The method then includes estimating, in the one or more computing devices, one or more road quality characteristics of the road segment based on at least one of the quantitative pavement surface characteristics of the road segment and the quantitative vehicle properties of the one or more vehicles.

Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: A nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite that conducts electricity. The nanoporous carbon-loaded cement composite can be used in a variety of different fields of use, including, for example, a structural super-capacitor as an energy solution for autonomous housing and other buildings, a heated cement for pavement deicing or house basement insulation against capillary rise, a protection of concrete against freeze-thaw (FT) or alkali silica reaction (ASR) or other crystallization degradation processes, and as a conductive cable, wire or concrete trace.

Abstract: A method for predicting mechanical properties of a transverse isotropic region of a rock formation traversed by a well bore including running a logging tool in the well bore; the mass percentages of minerals present in the rock formation surrounding the well bore are measured with the logging tool. The density of the minerals present in the rock formation surrounding the well bore is determined. The porosity of the rock formation surrounding the well bore is measured. From the porosity and the measured mass percentages and density of the minerals, all the transverse isotropic elastic coefficients of the rock formation are determined in real time.

Abstract: A method for predicting mechanical properties of a transverse isotropic region of a rock formation traversed by a well bore including running a logging tool in the well bore; the mass percentages of minerals present in the rock formation surrounding the well bore are measured with the logging tool. The density of the minerals present in the rock formation surrounding the well bore is determined. The porosity of the rock formation surrounding the well bore is measured. From the porosity and the measured mass percentages and density of the minerals, all the transverse isotropic elastic coefficients of the rock formation are determined in real time.