Structural Health Monitoring
Through the structural health monitoring center established in 2018, a streamlined framework has been developed that is compatible with various sensors such as accelerometers, displacement meters, and tilt-meters, which can be applied to any type of structure, which framework able to communicate with industry-standard protocols via third-party equipment/software requested by the client, and revisable on a project basis. The Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) can be used for the following purposes:
- Monitoring the building in real-time to obtain information about its current condition.
- Evaluating the building’s behavior against external factors.
- Evaluating the building's behavior against long-term loads (fatigue)
- Determining whether the building is healthy/defective/unhealthy in the light of the information obtained.
- Predicting the expected behavior in a more severe event (earthquake) from a small event.
In general, the following road map is pursued within the scope of SHM activity:
- Determining the primary purpose of monitoring the building.
- Performing the nonlinear dynamic and static analysis of the building (NTHA and/or pushover) to determine the behavior of the building realistically.
- Determining the "damage indicators" (story acceleration, inter-story drift ratios, cracks, etc.) in the light of the previous step and the current regulations.
- Determining the most accurate equipment and the equipment positions to monitor the said damage indicators.
- Determining the camera system and its infrastructure for observational analysis.
- Determining the data recording, time matching, and communication procedures.
- Preparing shop and application schematic drawings.
- Completing assembly and application process
- Filtering and processing the data in real-time.
- Obtaining the results in real-time and present them in the format requested by the employer.
- Completing the software and integration services.
- Transferring the results to the employer's "Building Management System" in the desired format.
