A cost effective wireless structural health monitoring network for buildings in earthquake zones

The design, programming and implementation of a cost effective wireless structural health monitoring system (wSHMs) is presented, able to monitor the seismic and or man-made acceleration in buildings. This system actually operates as a sensor network exploiting internet connections that commonly exi...

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Published in:Smart materials and structures 2014-10, Vol.23 (10), p.105010-11
Main Authors: Pentaris, F P, Stonham, J, Makris, J P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acceleration
Buildings
cost effective
Exact sciences and technology
General equipment and techniques
Health monitoring (engineering)
Instruments, apparatus, components and techniques common to several branches of physics and astronomy
Monitors
Networks
Physics
seismic acceleration
Seismic phenomena
sensor network
Sensors (chemical, optical, electrical, movement, gas, etc.)
remote sensing
Structural health monitoring
wireless structural health monitoring
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Summary:The design, programming and implementation of a cost effective wireless structural health monitoring system (wSHMs) is presented, able to monitor the seismic and or man-made acceleration in buildings. This system actually operates as a sensor network exploiting internet connections that commonly exist, aiming to monitor the structural health of the buildings being installed. Key-feature of wSHMs is that it can be implemented in Wide Area Network mode to cover many remote structures and buildings, on metropolitan scale. Acceleration data is able to send, in real time, from dozens of buildings of a broad metropolitan area, to a central database, where they are analyzed in order to depict possible structural damages or nonlinear characteristics and alert for non-appropriateness of specific structures.
ISSN:0964-1726
1361-665X
DOI:10.1088/0964-1726/23/10/105010