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Smart Structures and Systems Volume 6, Number 3, April 2010 , pages 309-333 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sss.2010.6.3.309 |
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Sensor enriched infrastructure system |
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Ming L. Wang and Jinsuk Yim
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| Abstract | ||
| Civil infrastructure, in both its construction and maintenance, represents the largest societal investment in this country, outside of the health care industry. Despite being the lifeline of US commerce, civil infrastructure has scarcely benefited from the latest sensor technological advances. Our future should focus on harnessing these technologies to enhance the robustness, longevity and economic viability of this vast, societal investment, in light of inherent uncertainties and their exposure to service and even extreme loadings. One of the principal means of insuring the robustness and longevity of infrastructure is to strategically deploy smart sensors in them. Therefore, the objective is to develop novel, durable, smart sensors that are especially applicable to major infrastructure and the facilities to validate their reliability and long-term functionality. In some cases, this implies the development of new sensing elements themselves, while in other cases involves innovative packaging and use of existing sensor technologies. In either case, a parallel focus will be the integration and networking of these smart sensing elements for reliable data acquisition, transmission, and fusion, within a decision-making framework targeting efficient management and maintenance of infrastructure systems. In this paper, prudent and viable sensor and health monitoring technologies have been developed and used in several large structural systems. Discussion will also include several practical bridge health monitoring applications including their design, construction, and operation of the systems. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| bridge health monitoring system; real-time monitoring; crack opening cisplacement (COD); temperature effect; traffic effect; cable force measurement; magneto-elastic sensor (EM); cable-supported bridge. | ||
| Address | ||
| Ming L. Wang; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, 400 Snell Engineering Center, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA Jinsuk Yim; Intelligent Instrument System, Inc., 16W251 S. Frontage Rd., Suite 23, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, USA | ||