The objective of this research is to develop and verify the wireless micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) monitoring
system for the health monitoring of high rise buildings. The MEMS accelerometer has advantages of small size, low-cost
and low power consumption, and thereby is suitable for wireless monitoring. Consequently, the use of MEMS and
wireless communication can reduce system cost and simplify the installation for the structural health monitoring. To
assess the applicability, the wireless MEMS monitoring system is applied to a full-scale building structure with hybrid
mass damper (HMD) system. The building is a 5-story steel building and the HMD is mounted on the 4th floor to vibrate
the building. The field evaluation results indicate that the wireless MEMS monitoring system is reliable and robust for
the health monitoring of buildings.
Concrete may the economical material available for buildings and civil structures due to various important its properties such as high compressive strength, wear resistance, abrasion resistance and durability. The most disadvantages of concrete structural elements are its cracks in flexure. Visual inspection is difficult and provides little detailed information in crack conditions. Recently, a new trend, called smart concrete or structure, has been emerged using various technologies for monitoring of crack conditions of concrete. A method designed to monitor or characterize the crack conditions in concrete beams in flexure using polymerbased composite sensors is conducted in the present work. The embedded polymer-based composite sensor shows a potential to evaluate the conditions of concrete's cracks in beams under flexural loading such as initial and critical crack conditions, using data acquisition system.
Various monitoring sensors have been used for the monitoring and damage prediction of structures. Piezoelectric and optical fiber sensor that are required housing for the field applications are used widely. The voltage change of piezoelectric for the steel girder is used for damage prediction. The inspection and monitoring for safety of crane is not easy because it is located in high level and the operation should be stop for the inspection. The constant input load by moving the crane girder with constant speed was used instead of ambient vibration. In this test, wireless monitoring system using LAN is tried for the long distance measurement. The objective of this paper is to present the dynamic measurement results to identify the potential damage of steel beam using piezoelectric sensor. Cantilever beams, a simply supported beam with bolted splice, and actual crane girder have been chosen for the test. FFT method was used for the damage identification. This output-only dynamic test is likely applied to the top crane to monitor the damage.
Various structural materials have been used in construction projects using stones, concretes, and steels materials. Among of these projects, concretes may use widely because concretes have high compressive strength, and comparatively easy maintenance and management. Reinforced concrete Buildings will be deteriorated as time passed. These problems will be accelerated by propagation of cracks. In order to manage such cracks, time, efforts and expense are required. In this study, leakages of fluorescence and adhesive material were investigated using glass sensors that were embedded in a model beam and column. In addition, currents in glass pipe sensor were observed to find leakage of liquid in glass pipes. Progressive cracks were generated by fracture of glass pipe sensor. In this investigation, a reinforcement clothing system was wrapped for a glass pipe sensor. The glass pipe sensor that can make control and reinforce cracks simultaneously.
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