Structural Health Monitoring 2005

Applications of structural health monitoring to bridges, buildings, piping systems, air craft, helicopters, rockets, machinery, pressure tanks—as well as materials types such as sandwich structures, panels, polymers, metal alloys and more · Important new information on sensors, online monitoring, diagnostics, networking, and planning for safety and maintenance · Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Army Research Office How to design and implement new technologies for detecting defects and failure in civil structures and aircraft is the focus of this new and important book, Structural Health 2005: Advancements and Challenges for Implementation. Based on a conference held in September, 2005, this volume contains contributions from hundreds of experts who explain the latest technical information on ways engineers, designers, and materials specialists can protect infrastructure and vehicles from deterioration and catastrophic failure. New data is presented on air, rotorcraft, and spacecraft structural monitoring. The book covers all aspects of SHM: signals, sensors, diagnostics, distributed sensing, Sensor Network Paradigms, Hot Structures, and more. This book will benefit engineers engaged in designing new structures and materials, especially as designs are impacted by the incorporation of SHM technologies and the type of structural data such technologies provide. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Keynote Presentations · Integrated Systems Health Management for Space Exploration · The Future Role of Structural Health Monitoring for Air Vehicle Applications · Fundamental Axioms of Structural Health Monitoring · Recent Developments in Vibration-Based Structural Health Monitoring · Damage Assessment and Monitoring of Long-Span Bridges · SHIELD (Structural Health Integrated Electronic Life Determination) · Health Management Issues and Strategy for Air Force Missiles · Structural Health Monitoring—The Future of Advanced Composite Structures Civil Application · Multi-Purpose Wireless Accelerometers for Civil Infrastructures Monitoring · A Null Space Approach for Damage Localization in Systems Identified from Operational or Ambient Vibration Data · Detecting and Locating Multiple Cracks in a Masonry Structure under Environmental Conditions · Nondestructive Characterization of the Fatigue Condition of Cyclically Loaded Welded Joints using Micromagnetic Parameters · Investigation of System Identification Methods for Structural Health Monitoring: Studies on a Physical Grid Model · Field Measurement of Cable Forces and Modal Properties of a Cable-Stayed Bridge · Structural Health Monitoring of a Bridge using Reliability Based System Assessment · Application of Model-Based Damage Identification to a Seismically Loaded Structure · Real-Time Earthquake Monitoring of Large-Scale Bridge Structures · The Role of Inherent Damage of Older Bridges · Fiber Bragg Grating Accelerometer for Structural Monitoring of Power Transmission Lines · Investigating Fundamental Mechanics of Microcracks in Concrete using Acoustic Signature Modeling · Development and Implementation of a Continuous Monitoring System on a Multi-Girder Composite Steel Bridge in Connecticut · Research and Development Policy of the Advanced Maintenance Systems for the Industrial Structures and Infra-Structures Founded by METI Challenge to Future . . . · Structural Damage Detection in Cable-Stayed Bridges using Correlation and Sensitivity of Modal Data · On-Line Damage Identification of Structures with Unknown Excitations · Experimental Study on Structural Health Monitoring of Concrete Structures using Self-Diagnosis Materials and Wir