Real-Time and Web-Based Structural Damage Detection Network for Multiple Structures

Abstract

A structural damage detection system specifically designed to monitor multiple structures at a network level is introduced in this paper. Such a monitoring system improves resiliency and helps manage the operation and maintenance of structures in an optimum way. The authors have focused on stadia-type laboratory structures for this network. Health monitoring of stadia has been conducted at multiple places in the world; however, a network of stadia monitored simultaneously with comprehensive monitoring purposes is not known to authors. For structural monitoring of multiple structures at a network level, the work presented in this paper explains and characterizes the major steps to reach this goal by focusing on three laboratory structures with a collaborative research effort among contributors from multiple universities across the globe.