NON-DESTRUCTIVE METHODS INTO HEALTH MONITORING OF TALL TYPE BUILDINGS OPERATING INTO HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The paper is focusing on selected problems of health monitoring of tall type buildings. The actual problem in structural health monitoring (SHM) is to find the damages and its location by performing some statistical pattern recognition based on the measured data termed as feature extraction. The damage caused by environmental loads should be repaired; otherwise, it will expand with time and might lead to complete system failure. Dynamic parameters, such as velocity, acceleration and displacement, play a significant role in determining the structure dynamics. This paper is focusing on smart wireless sensors application into health monitoring systems of tall type buildings operating into hazardous environment and selected methods for data analysis obtained from the monitoring system. Smart sensors can locally process measured data and transmit only the significant information via wireless communication. As a network, wireless sensors extend the capability. Significant future developments of smart wireless sensors technology in tall type buildings in hazardous environment come by way of multi-disciplinary research efforts encompassing fields such as data analysing, signal processing, structural dynamics, motion and environmental sensing hardware, computational hardware, smart materials, data telemetry and statistical pattern recognition, as well as other fields yet to be defined. Specification issues that require automation of the decision making process in the evaluation of the technical state of the tall type structure have been also discussed.