Structural Health Monitoring Cloud and its Applications for Large-Scale Infrastructures

Abstract:

The concept and framework about Structural Health Monitoring Cloud (SHMC) for data management, data storage, safety warning and structural safety assessment are established in this paper based on the fusions of cloud computing, internet of things (IOT), and structural health monitoring (SHM). SHM plays a significant role in modern infrastructure because it provides a means to assess structural integrity online, eliminate manual inspections and may result in a transition from time-to condition-based maintenance. Also, there are many difficulties to deal with the huge amounts data for the owner of infrastructure. So the new ideas of SHMC which is provided and realized by the third part professional organization are proposed in this paper. Based on the summary of the technical characteristic of internet of things for structural health monitoring, the system requirements, architecture, and advantages of SHMC are described, and then the statues of related technology research were reviewed. The data mining and damage detection programs are embedded in SHMC platform and all collected data from acquisition system would be processed and then be used to assess the safety of infrastructures. Finally, actual applications of SHMC for large-scale infrastructures are illustrated.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 330)
• Pages: 418-425
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.330.418
• Online since: June 2013
• Authors: Cheng Ming Lan, Wen Feng Liu
• Keywords: Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Internet of Things (IOT), Safety Evaluation, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)

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