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

作者：Pentaris F P^*; Stonham J; Makris J P

来源：Smart Materials and Structures, 2014, 23(10): 105010.

DOI：10.1088/0964-1726/23/10/105010

• wireless structural health monitoring
• seismic acceleration
• cost effective
• sensor network

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.

• 出版日期2014-10