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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Structural monitoring"”.
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Inference and uncertainty quantification for unsupervised structural monitoring problems
Health monitoring is an essential functionality for smart and sustainable infrastructures that helps improving their safety and life span. A major element of such functionality is statistical inference and decision making which aims to process the dynamic response of structures in order to localize …
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Overview of monitoring systems used during construction and permanent structural monitoring
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.
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Highly Integrated Graphene-Based Chemical Sensing Platform for Structural Monitoring Applications
… high-speed readout electronics for structural monitoring applications. For example, in harsh environmental conditions, structures constructed from reinforced concrete may experience degradation due to corrosion, a chemical process initiated by carbonation from atmospheric CO₂ and …
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Structural Monitoring With Fiber Bragg Grating Strain Sensor Array and Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry
… 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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Development of a Field Monitoring System for the Northside Drive Bridge
… project aims to create a system for real-time structural monitoring of bridges, ultimately offering a reliable method to accurately estimate a bridge’s remaining fatigue life. Standard procedures exist to calculate the remaining fatigue life of steel bridges. However, such procedures rely on …
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Study into the use of the GNSS for maritime structure analysis
… GPS is used in surveying, navigation and monitoring applications. Although GPS has been used previously to monitor the structural integrity of civilian structures such as bridges and towers, the experimental conditions have one significant difference: These structures are all immobile …
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Structural modelling and earthquake analysis of a hospital building located within the Tjörnes fracture zone in Iceland
… The main focus of this study is to examine the structural characteristics, dynamic behaviour and structural integrity of the hospital in the town of Húsavik in North Iceland. A structural monitoring system was installed in the building in May 2015. The structural monitoring system is a part of …
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Distributed Pressure and Temperature Sensing Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
… This kind of sensors can be applied to civil structural monitoring of pipelines, railroads, and other industries for disaster prevention. This thesis first presents a novel fiber sensing scheme for long-span fully-distributed pressure measurement based on Brillouin scattering in a side-hole …
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Flexible Smart Sensor Framework for Autonomous Full-Scale Structural Health Monitoring
… infrastructure require effective methods for structural monitoring and maintenance. Wireless smart sensors provide an attractive means for structural health monitoring (SHM) through the utilization of onboard computation to achieve distributed data management. Such an approach is scalable to …
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Tracking Forest Height Growth Over Time with ICESat-2 ATL08
… potential of the ATL08 product in global forest structural monitoring in the face of a changing climate.
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Enabling smart city resilience: post-disaster response and structural health monitoring
… to emergency response and civil infrastructure monitoring/assessment. To achieve this objective, this research focuses on post-disaster victim localization and assessment, first responder tracking and event localization, and vision-based structural monitoring/assessment, including the use of …
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Intrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometric Fiber Sensor Based on Ultra-Short Bragg Gratings for Quasi-Distributed Strain and Temperature Measurements
The health monitoring of smart structures in civil engineering is becoming more and more important as in-situ structural monitoring would greatly reduce structure life-cycle costs and improve reliability. The distributed strain and temperature sensing is highly desired in large structures where …
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A Novel Optical Fatigue Monitoring And Crack Sensing System
… particularly in the area associated with the monitoring of hidden cracks prior to structural failure. The ability to detect and monitor cracks provides the opportunity to take preventative action prior to impending failure. However, current structural monitoring technologies are limited by …
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Diagnostic and prognostic analysis tools for monitoring degradation in aged structures
… of research has been carried out in the field of structural monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics for high tech industries, this is not the case for historical aged structures. Currently most maintenance projects for aged structures have focused on the instrumentation and diagnostic techniques …
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Multi-functional applications of graphene related materials in cementitious composites
… frequent inspections and an enhanced structural monitoring regime. Despite the advancements in material science over the years, cementitious composites remain passive structural materials and do not possess any functionalities. The motivation for this research was to take advantage of …
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Diagnostic and prognostic methodology for monitoring silk fade in a museum environment
… engineering systems, used in aerospace and for structural monitoring of built environments, including heritage structures. To achieve this, a new mathematical fade model is postulated, to predict the fading, (colour degradation) of the silk that is a function of the exposure to its environmental …
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ENERGY-EFFICIENT ROUTING ALGORITHMS FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
… can be employed in various applications (e.g., Structural monitoring, agriculture, environment monitoring, machine health monitoring, military, and health). For each application area there are different technical issues and remedies. Various challenges need to be considered while setting up a …
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Structural assessment of bridges using monitoring data
… has been relatively little industry uptake of structural health monitoring (SHM) technologies and model updating techniques, i.e., the integration of structural monitoring data with structural analysis modelling, in bridge operation and maintenance (O\&M) activities. Many bridge practitioners …
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Τεκμηρίωση δυνατότητας μετρήσεων ταλαντώσεων δύσκαμπτων κατασκευών με GPS και ρομποτικό θεοδόλιχο (RTS) : πειραματική, αναλυτική προσέγγιση και εφαρμογές
… στον τομέα του ελέγχου της δομικής ακεραιότητας (Structural Health Monitoring) των κατασκευών (A’ μέρος της Διατριβής). Τα συμπεράσματα αυτά προέκυψαν με βάση πειράματα και αναλυτική επεξεργασία των δεδομένων των πειραμάτων (B μέρος της Διατριβής) και εφαρμογή της τεχνικής σε δύο δύσκαμπτες …
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