Structural Health Monitoring: GGBS – Foam concrete evaluation for Stress-Strain Characterization

Abstract

Digital Image Processing (DIP) uses photogrammetry principles to monitor elements in space and attribute respective coordinates to a pre-set reference frame. The comparison makes the measure of a graphic collection taken above fixed intervals. The technique may be performed in many experiments, including compressive, longitudinal, torque, bending, and different combined loading for static and dynamic applications. As the world’s engineering structures (such as towers and highways) mature, there seems to be a critical necessity to maintain and analyse the integrity of the system of large buildings. As per the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), there were 161,892 obsolete or technically deficient bridges in the U. S. as of 2008, with the mean lifespan of a bridge being 43 years old. The primary method used to assess deck integrity today is subjectively direct observation, which is unreliable since specific damage can be hard to spot, difficult to quantify visibly, or subject to individual perception. Bridges have lately been monitored using classic detectors like strain gauges and deflection indicators.