Reshealience

Rover Maritime participates in the European project Reshealience “Rethinking coastal defence and green energy service infrastructures through enhanced durability high performance cement based materials”, funded by the European Union and involving 14 partners from 9 different countries. 
The aim of the project is to develop new advanced materials with self-repairing properties without external intervention in a short period of time. These materials are expected to have a triple impact:

• Cost savings, thanks to reduced maintenance and waste management costs. 

• Comfort, reducing the time when infrastructure is out of service for repair or maintenance. 

• Safety and prevention, avoiding occupational risks associated with maintenance and repair tasks.

The development of the project focuses on marine structures and geothermal plant infrastructures, since in both cases the materials, specifically concrete, are exposed to highly aggressive conditions that lead to rapid deterioration and shortening of their service life so that repair or maintenance costs skyrocket. Within the framework of the Reshealience project, different pilots have been developed for the validation of the material proposed to solve this situation, which is Ultra High Durability Concrete (UHDC). Pilots will be exposed to real conditions of aggressive environments (XS, marine environment and XA, chemical attack) and monitored in real time to assess the evolution of different durability parameters. 

In mid-2019, Rover Maritime, in collaboration with ICITECH-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, began manufacturing its pilot for the Reshealience project and is currently completed. This is a representative part of a floating platform for offshore wind turbines, which must meet very demanding mechanical strength and durability requirements. 
For the pilot design, a steel platform of 3 floats was used as reference, usually used in offshore wind turbines, and has been reproduced in UHDC concrete, it is scaled to a part corresponding to one of the floats and connecting arms with the aim of validating the UHDC at technical and economic level for this type of application, since a significant growth of the offshore market is expected in the coming years.

This project has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon H2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement Nº 760824.

IVACE, awarded Rover Maritime in 2017 a grant for the preparation of the ReShealience project, as part of its program to support the preparation of R&D project proposals for the European H2020 Programme.