School of Civil Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang 110168, China.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA.
Sensors (Basel). 2017 Jul 17;17(7):1641. doi: 10.3390/s17071641.
Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems can improve the safety and reliability of structures, reduce maintenance costs, and extend service life. Research on concrete SHMs using piezoelectric-based smart aggregates have reached great achievements. However, the newly developed techniques have not been widely applied in practical engineering, largely due to the wiring problems associated with large-scale structural health monitoring. The cumbersome wiring requires much material and labor work, and more importantly, the associated maintenance work is also very heavy. Targeting a practical large scale concrete crack detection (CCD) application, a smart aggregates-based wireless sensor network system is proposed for the CCD application. The developed CCD system uses Zigbee 802.15.4 protocols, and is able to perform dynamic stress monitoring, structural impact capturing, and internal crack detection. The system has been experimentally validated, and the experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed system. This work provides important support for practical CCD applications using wireless smart aggregates.
结构健康监测 (SHM) 系统可以提高结构的安全性和可靠性,降低维护成本,延长使用寿命。使用基于压电的智能骨料的混凝土 SHM 研究已经取得了巨大成就。然而,新开发的技术尚未在实际工程中得到广泛应用,这主要是由于与大规模结构健康监测相关的布线问题。繁琐的布线需要大量的材料和劳动力,更重要的是,相关的维护工作也非常繁重。针对实际的大规模混凝土裂缝检测 (CCD) 应用,提出了一种基于智能骨料的无线传感器网络系统用于 CCD 应用。开发的 CCD 系统使用 Zigbee 802.15.4 协议,能够进行动态应力监测、结构冲击捕获和内部裂缝检测。该系统已经过实验验证,实验结果证明了该系统的有效性。这项工作为使用无线智能骨料进行实际的 CCD 应用提供了重要支持。