Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Sensors and Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring: A Review

  • Chapter
New Developments in Sensing Technology for Structural Health Monitoring

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 96))

Abstract

Incidents such as building and bridge collapse are on rise in many parts of the world without little apparent warning. Due to the increase number of incidents it has become of increasingly paramount importance to develop methods detecting the degradation or damage that result in these events. Thus, buildings and critical infrastructure could be monitored, much like a patient in a hospital, for signs of degradation or impending disability or collapse. The sensors are very important to know the state of the health of the structures and technologies are like human brains to analyze the abnormal situation. This chapter will provide a review of different available sensors and technologies to be used for monitoring the health of structures.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Choi, H., Choi, S., Cha, H.: Structural Health Monitoring System Based on Strain Gauge Enabled Wireless Sensor Node. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Netwroked Sensing Systems, Kanazawa, Japan, June 17-19, pp. 211–214 (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  2. Maenaka, K.: MEMS Inertial Sensors and Their Applications. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Netwroked Sensing Systems, Kanazawa, Japan, June 17-19, pp. 71–73 (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Baptista, F.G., Filho, J.V.: ‘A New Impedance Measurement System for PZT-Based Structural Health Monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements 58(10), 3602–3608 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Foote, P.D., Read, I.: Optical Sensors for Aerospace Structural Monitoring. IEE Colloquium on Optical Techniques for Structural Monitoring, 2/1–2/6 (April 28, 1995)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Kim, D.H., Feng, M.Q.: Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring Using a Novel Fiber-Optic Accelerometer System. IEEE Sensors Journal 7(4), 536–543 (2007)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Michie, W.C., Thursby, G., Walsh, D., Culshaw, B., Konstantaki, M.: Distributed Sensing of Physical and Chemical Parameters for Structural Monitoring. IEE Colloquium on Optical Techniques for Structural Monitoring , 9/1–9/6 (April 28, 1995)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Bo-lin, S., Bi-feng, S., Fei, C.: New Sensors Technologies in Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis, Beijing, China, April 21-24, pp. 1–4 (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  8. Niu, J., Deng, Z., Zhou, F., Cao, Z., Liu, Z., Zhu, F.: A Structural Health Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor Network”. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless Communication, Networking and Mobile Computing, Beijing, China, September 24-26, pp. 1–4 (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Anastasi, G., Lo Re, G., Ortolani, M.: WSNs for Structural Health Monitoring of Historical Buildings. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Human Systems Interactions 2009, Catania, Italy, May 21-23, pp. 574–579 (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Hedley, M., Hoschke, N., Johnson, M., Lewis, C., Murdoch, A., Price, D., Prokopenko, M., Scott, A., Wang, P., Farmer, A.: Sensor Network for Structural Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 2004 Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing Conference, Melbourne, Australia, December 14-17, pp. 361–366 (2004)

    Google Scholar 

  11. Wang, D.H., Liao, W.H.: Instrumentation of a Wireless Transmission System for Health Monitoring of Large Infrastructures. In: Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurements Technology Conference 2001, Budapest, Hungary, May 21-23, pp. 634–639 (2001)

    Google Scholar 

  12. Sazonov, E., Li, H., Curry, D., Pillay, P.: Self-Powered Sensors for Monitoring of Highway Bridges. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1422–1429 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Whelan, M.J., Gangone, M.V., Janoyan, K.D.: Highway Bridge Assessment Using an Adaptive Real-Time Wireless Sensor Network. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1405–1413 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Merlino, P., Abramo, A.: An Integrated Sensing/Communication Architecture for Structural Health Monitoring. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1397–1404 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Chin, J.C., Rautenberg, J.F., Ma, C.Y.T., Pujol, S., Yau, D.K.Y.: An Experimental Low-Cost, Low-Data-Rate Rapid Structural Assessment Network. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1361–1369 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. da Costa Antunes, P.F., et al.: Optical Fiber Accelerometer System for Structural Dynamic Monitoring. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1347–1354 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. Kerrouche, A., Boyle, W.J.O., Sun, T., Grattan, K.T.V., Schmidt, J.W., Taljsten, B.: Strain Measurement Using Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors Inside an Anchored Carbon Fiber Polymer Reinforcement Prestressing Rod for Structural Monitoring. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1456–1461 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Grattan, S.K.T., Taylor, S.E., Sun, T., Basheer, P.A.M., Grattan, K.T.V.: In Situ Cross-Calibration of In-Fiber Bragg Grating and Electrical Resistance Strain Gauges for Structural Monitoring Using an Extensometer. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1355–1360 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  19. Zhang, Y., Tsai, J., Li, G.P., Feng, M.Q., Bachman, M.: MOEMS Acoustic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of IEEE Sensors Conference, Waikaloa, Hawaii, November 1-4, pp. 2311–2315 (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  20. Dondi, D., Di Pompeo, A., Tenti, C., Simunić Rosing, T.: Shimmer: a Wireless Harvesting Embedded System for Active Ultrasonic Structural Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of IEEE Sensors Conference, Waikaloa, Hawaii, November 1-4, pp. 2325–2328 (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  21. Matsushiba, Y., Nishi, H.: Structural Health Monitoring System Considering Fault-tolerance. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2008), Daejeon, Korea, July 13-16, pp. 330–335 (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  22. Matsushiba, Y., Nishi, H.: Effective Data Sharing System for Fault Tolerant Structural Health Monitoring System. In: Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, Nagaoka, Japan, March 21-24, pp. 76–81 (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  23. Liu, X., Cao, J., Xu, Y., Wu, H., Liu, Y.: A Multi-Scale Strategy in Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, Melbourne, Australia, December 7-10, pp. 361–366 (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  24. DeSimio, M.P., Olson, S.E., Montes de Oca, J.A., Derriso, M.M.: Signal Processing Issues Related to Structural Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 41st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, USA, November 4-7, pp. 843–847 (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  25. Dezfouli, S., Zabihollah, A.: Structural Health Monitoring of Buried Pipelines under Static Dislocation and Vibration. In: 2010 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications, July 15-17. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (2010), doi:10.1109/MESA.2010.5552052.

    Google Scholar 

  26. Shrive, N.G.: Intelligent Structural Health Monitoring: a Civil Engineering Perspective. In: Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 10-12, pp. 1973–1977. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (2005), IEEE DOI: 10.1109/ICSNC.2005.1571436

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  27. Musiani, D., Lin, K., Simunic Rosing, T.: Active Sensing Platform for Wireless Structural Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensors Network, ISNP 2007, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, April 25-27, pp. 390–399 (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  28. Arms, S.W., Galbreath, J.H., Townsend, C.P., Churchill, D.L., Corneau, B., Ketchan, R.P., Pham, N.: Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensors and Networked Timing Synchronization for Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology (Wireless VITAE), Aalborg, Denmark, May 17-20, pp. 16–20 (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  29. Kim, J., Grisso, B.L., Ha, D.S., Inman, D.J.: An All-Digital Low-Power Structural Health Monitoring System. In: Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Woburn, MA, USA, May 16-17, pp. 123–128 (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  30. Ravinagarajan, A., Dondi, D., Simunic Rosing, T.: DVFS Based Task Scheduling in a Harvesting WSN for Structural Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe, Dresden, Germany, March 8-12, pp. 1518–1523 (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  31. Furse, C., Smith, P., Diamond, M.: Feasibility of Reflectometry for Nondestructive Evaluation of Prestressed Concrete Anchors. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1322–1329 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  32. Wijetunge, S., Gunawardana, U., Liyanapathirana, R.: Wireless Sensors networks for Structural Health Monitoring: Considerations for Communication Protocol Design. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on telecommunication, Doga, Qatar, April 4-7, pp. 694–699 (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  33. Harms, T., Sedigh, S., Bastianini, F.: Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges Using Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, 14–18 (December 2010)

    Google Scholar 

  34. Yu, L., Zhu, J.H., Chen, L.J.: Parametric Study on PCA-based Algorithm for Structural Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 2010 Prognostic & System Health Management Conference (PHM 2010), Macau, January 12-14 (2010) paper: MU3072

    Google Scholar 

  35. Yu, L., Xu, P.: An ACO-based Algorithm for Structural Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 2010 Prognostic & System Health Management Conference (PHM 2010), Macau, January 12-14 (2010) paper: MU3053

    Google Scholar 

  36. Liehr, S., Lenke, P., Wendt, M., Krebber, K., Seeger, M., Thiele, E., Metschies, H., Gebreselassie, B., Munich, J.C.: Polymer Optical Fiber Sensors for Distributed Strain Measurement and Application in Structural Health Monitoring. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1330–1338 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  37. Hann, C.E., Singh-Levett, I., Deam, B.L., Mander, J.B., Chase, J.G.: Real-Time System Identification of a Nonleaner Four-Story Steel Frame Structure – Application to Structural Health Monitoring. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1339–1346 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  38. Ledeczi, A., Hay, T., Volgyesi, P., Hay, D.R., Nadas, A., Jayaraman, S.: Wireless Acoustic Emission Sensor Network for Structural Health Monitoring. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1370–1377 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  39. Thomson, D.J., Card, D., Bridges, G.E.: RF Cavity Passive Wireless Sensors with Time-Domain Gating-Based Interrogation for SHM of Civil Structures. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1430–1438 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  40. Friedrich, M., Dobie, G., Chan, C.C., Pierce, S.G., Galbraith, W., Marshall, S., Hayword, G.: Miniature Mobile Sensor Platforms for Condition Monitoring of Structures. IEEE Sensors Journal 9(11), 1439–1448 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    S. C. Mukhopadhyay

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan

    I. Ihara

Authors
  1. S. C. Mukhopadhyay
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. I. Ihara
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Massey University, 12 Woodgate Court, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Ihara, I. (2011). Sensors and Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring: A Review. In: Mukhopadhyay, S.C. (eds) New Developments in Sensing Technology for Structural Health Monitoring. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 96. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21099-0_1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21099-0_1

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-21098-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-21099-0

  • eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation