Introduction to Structural Health Monitoring

Overview

Presented by National Instruments and PCB Piezotronics, Inc. 

As we move away from the lab, several demands and requirements for the system change. For one thing, the size of the structure gets much larger. Instead of a vehicle, plane or shuttle, we’re now dealing with bridges, pipelines, buildings, and dams. In addition, instead of applying a stimulus to test the structure, the structure is now continuously monitored under its normal operating conditions.

Civil Structure Monitoring is growing field of structural engineering that aims at providing quantitative information about the health of structures such as bridges, buildings, dams, tunnels, pipelines, platforms, or ships. The purpose of Civil Structure Monitoring is to build a more intelligent and safer civil infrastructure. This is accomplished through installation of appropriate sensing systems to continuously monitor the health of civil structures through strain, vibration, displacement, pressure, temperature and other sensing elements.

Watch this 15 minute webcast to learn about components of a civil structure monitoring system and latest sensor technologies for civil structure monitoring.

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