Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring

Structural Health Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks

Nowadays sustainability for both old and new buildings becomes more and more important. Therefore non-destructive test methods are of high interest. Non-destructive test methods are used for quality control of construction materials, inspection and analysis of materials or structures and are used for continuous monitoring of large constructions. A multitude of characteristic values of building ...

Structural Health Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks

Structure monitoring brings new challenges to wireless sensor network: high-fidelity sampling, collecting large volume of data, and sophisticated signal processing. New accelerometer board measures tens of G acceleration. High frequency sampling is enabled by new component of David Gay. With new component, up to 6.67KHz sampling is possible with jitter less than 10s. Large-scale Reliable Transf...

Multi-scale wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring

With growing interest in wireless sensor networks and their application to Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Engineering, many important issues including network lifetime and stability, damage detection reliability, and overall effectiveness when using low-cost sensors must be realistically addressed. In response, a multi-scale wireless sensor network is introduced in this study, integratin...

Mobile Sensor Networks: A New Approach for Structural Health Monitoring

In this paper, a new approach using mobile sensor networks is proposed for structural health monitoring. Compared with static sensors, mobile sensor networks offer flexible system architectures with adaptive spatial resolutions. The paper describes the design concept of a flexure-based mechatronic (flexonic) mobile sensing node and its application in structural health monitoring. The flexonic m...

Distributed Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring