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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Health monitoring systems"”.
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Smart E-Textiles Integrated into Human Health Monitoring Systems
… wearable electronics for human performance and health monitoring. There are many applications of e-textiles in the health monitoring industry, where early detection and prevention of adverse health conditions is at the forefront of concern. To illustrate the potential of e-textile monitoring in …
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Piezoelectric-based in-situ damage detection of composite materials for structural health monitoring systems
Cost-effective and reliable damage detection is critical for the utilization of composite materials. This thesis presents the conclusions of an analytical and experimental survey of candidate methods for in-situ damage detection in composite materials. Finite element results are presented for the …
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Development of Structural Health Monitoring Systems Incorporating Acoustic Emission Detection for Spacecraft and Wind Turbine Blades
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the science and technology of monitoring and can assess the condition of aerospace, civil, and mechanical infrastructures using a sensing system integrated into the structure. SHM is capable of detecting, locating, and quantifying various types of damage such …
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Integration of Traffic and Structural Health Monitoring Systems Using A Novel Nothing-On-Road (NOR) Bridge-Weigh-In-Motion (BWIM) System
… of pavement-based WIM and traditional BWIM systems. These include lane closure, interruption to the traveling traffic, and sensitivity to daily tire impacts and harsh weather conditions. It also provides a portable solution with a less labor-intense installation process. Additionally, …
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Assessing the economic value of using structural health monitoring systems on South African bridges by studying the Ermelo-Richards Bay Freight Railway line
… useful life of concrete structures. Structural Health Monitoring Systems (SHMS) can be used to monitor structural integrity and the information obtained from these systems can be used in detecting overloading (on bridges for instance) and to alert asset managers of any due maintenance. …
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Structural Monitoring With Fiber Bragg Grating Strain Sensor Array and Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry
In this work, concepts of smart structures, health monitoring systems, and Infrastructure Optics are discussed. This accumulates in the development of the Optical and Structural Simulation software that integrates all key components of Infrastructure Optics. Recent developments in the use of …
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Wireless sensor network for health monitoring
… have facilitated the realization of pervasive health monitoring for both homecare and hospital environments. Current technological advances in sensors, power-efficient integrated circuits, and wireless communication have allowed the development of miniature, lightweight, low-cost, and smart …
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Theory of Decision Based on Structural Health Monitoring
… and machine learning has made structural health monitoring appealing to the agencies that manage important structures. This has encouraged the research community in the study of new structural health monitoring methods. In spite of this, the use of monitoring data is often disregarded by …
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Detection of fiber fracture in Unidirectional Fiber Reinforced Composites using an In-Plane Fiber Optic Sensor
… mechanisms initiate and develop are not known. Systems for structural health monitoring are being sought as a means of managing important components in transportation systems as assets in light of modern life cycle cost concepts. This study characterizes a fiber optic sensor for use in detecting …
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A Novel Highly Accurate Wireless Wearable Human Locomotion Tracking and Gait Analysis System via UWB Radios
… skilled operators. Wearable locomotion tracking systems are available, but they are not sufficiently accurate for clinical gait analysis. At the same time, wireless healthcare is evolving. Particularly, ultra wideband (UWB) is a promising technology that has the potential for accurate ranging and …
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An Interactive Learning Framework for Understanding Infrastructure Health Monitoring and Leveraging Machine Learning for Safety Improvement
Crash mitigation in modern transportation systems requires more than just reactive safety strategies. It demands a comprehensive understanding of how infrastructure health conditions directly influence crash occurrence and severity patterns. As road networks continue to deteriorate and traffic …
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Transformation of the US healthcare system with the advent of wireless sensing technologies
The US healthcare system is looked at from the point of view of various stakeholders and how its current structure has emerged over the years. With the shifting demographics, change in disease mix, ICT revolution and other factors at play, the system is in a state of flux. Sensor technology on the …
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Every sign of life
… approach to and motivational schema for personal health monitoring. It is an exploration of how to make information collected by personal health-monitoring devices fun and engaging, and consequently more useful to the non-specialist. In contrast to the common methodology of adding game elements to …
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Algorithmic Optimization of Sensor Placement on Civil Structures for Fault Detection and Isolation
… enabled evolutionary development in structural health monitoring. Structural health monitoring (SHM), in its infancy, meant implementation of a suite of instruments and a data acquisition system. The data acquisition system sampled less data and required manual downloading of the acquired data …
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Hybrid Nanostructured Textile Bioelectrode for Unobtrusive Health Monitoring
… United States of America. Timely point-of-care health diagnostics and therapeutics for person suffering from these diseases can save thousands of lives. However, lack of accessible minimally intrusive health monitoring systems makes timely diagnosis difficult and sometimes impossible. To remedy …
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Baseline finite element modeling of government bridge
… to develop indices to aid in the structural health monitoring of aging bridges in the United States is much to be desired. This paper discusses the creation of a finite element model of Government Bridge, located between Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa, a historic structure dating …
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Transient current analysis for fault detection in large induction motors.
The majority of modern day health monitoring systems for polyphase squirrel cage induction machines, which employ the motors supply current as the diagnostic parameter, require the motor under investigation to be operating under fully loaded, steady state conditions before any useful information …
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WellBee : mobile therapy for stress-related eating
… lead to eating disorders. Stress may also affect health by causing the modification of behaviors such as physical exercise, smoking, or food choices. Thus, stress-related eating is a problem that many people need help dealing with. As mobile phones have become increasingly popular, a mobile phone …
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Software for Manipulating and Embedding Data Interrogation Algorithms Into Integrated Systems
… for easily creating and embedding structural health monitoring (SHM) data interrogation processes in remote hardware is presented. The software described herein is comprised of two pieces. The first is a client to allow graphical construction of data interrogation processes. The second is node …
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Development, Testing, and Evaluation of Bridge Bearing Movement Sensor System
… monitored and maintained is required. Structural health monitoring systems have been developed to measure important features of bridges though one limiting factor of their use in practice is their high cost. With the advent of low-cost microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and internet of things …
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