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Structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure systems /

Structural health monitoring is an extremely important methodology in evaluating the 'health' of a structure by assessing the level of deterioration and remaining service life of civil infrastructure systems. This book reviews key developments in research, technologies and applications in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Karbhari, Vistasp M., Ansari, Farhad
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK : Boca Raton, FL : Woodhead Pub. ; CRC Press, ©2009.
Colección:Woodhead Publishing in materials.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure systems; Copyright; Contents; Contributor contact details; Introduction: structural health monitoring
  • a means to optimal design in the future; 1 Structural health monitoring: applications and data analysis; 1.1 Structural health monitoring (SHM) approach; 1.2 Components for a complete SHM; 1.3 Application scenarios for decision making; 1.4 Emerging Role of structural health monitoring for management; 1.5 Critical considerations for structural health monitoring interpretations; 1.6 Data analysis, interpretation and some methods.
  • 1.7 Conclusions1.8 Acknowledgments; 1.9 References; Part I Structural health monitoring technologies; 2 Piezoelectric impedance transducers for structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure systems; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Electromechanical impedance modeling; 2.3 Damage assessment; 2.4 Sensing region of lead zirconate titanate transducers; 2.5 Practical issues on field applications; 2.6 Conclusions; 2.7 References; 3 Wireless sensors and networks for structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure systems; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Challenges in wireless monitoring.
  • 3.3 Hardware requirements for wireless sensors3.4 Wireless sensing prototypes; 3.5 Embedded data processing; 3.6 Wireless monitoring: case studies; 3.7 Wireless sensors and cyber-infrastructures; 3.8 Wireless feedback control; 3.9 Future trends; 3.10 Sources of further information and advice; 3.11 References and further reading; 4 Synthetic aperture radar and remote sensing technologies for structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure systems; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Optical remote sensing: background; 4.3 Change/damage detection in urban areas; 4.4 Radar remote sensing: background.
  • 4.5 Side-looking aperture radar4.6 Synthetic aperture radar; 4.7 Feasibility of change detection by SAR simulation; 4.8 Change/damage detection using actual satellite SAR data; 4.9 Light detection and ranging remote sensing; 4.10 Acknowledgments; 4.11 References and further reading; 5 Magnetoelastic stress sensors for structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure systems; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Stress and magnetization; 5.3 Magnetoelastic stress sensors; 5.4 Effect of temperature on magnetic permeability; 5.5 Magnetoelastic sensor and measurement unit.
  • 5.6 Application of magnetoelastic sensor on bridges5.7 Conclusions; 5.8 References; 6 Vibration-based damage detection techniques for structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure systems; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Dynamic testing of structures; 6.3 Overview of vibration-based damage detection; 6.4 Application to a fiber reinforced polymer rehabilitated bridge structure; 6.5 Extension to prediction of service life; 6.6 Future trends; 6.7 References; 7 Operational modal analysis for vibration-based structural health monitoring of civil structures; 7.1 Introduction.