Book description
Sensors are used for civil infrastructure performance assessment and health monitoring, and have evolved significantly through developments in materials and methodologies. Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructure Volume I provides an overview of sensor hardware and its use in data collection.
The first chapters provide an introduction to sensing for structural performance assessment and health monitoring, and an overview of commonly used sensors and their data acquisition systems. Further chapters address different types of sensor including piezoelectric transducers, fiber optic sensors, acoustic emission sensors, and electromagnetic sensors, and the use of these sensors for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures. Developments in technologies applied to civil infrastructure performance assessment are also discussed, including radar technology, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology.
Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructure provides a standard reference for structural and civil engineers, electronics engineers, and academics with an interest in the field.
- Describes sensing hardware and data collection, covering a variety of sensors
- Examines fiber optic systems, acoustic emission, piezoelectric sensors, electromagnetic sensors, ultrasonic methods, and radar and millimeter wave technology
- Covers strain gauges, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), multifunctional materials and nanotechnology for sensing, and vision-based sensing and lasers
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contributor contact details
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
- Preface
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1. Introduction to sensing for structural performance assessment and health monitoring
- Abstract:
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Introduction to this book
- 1.3 Overview of sensors and sensing system hardware
- 1.4 Overview of sensor data interrogation and decision making
- 1.5 Overview of application of sensing systems to operational infrastructure
- 1.6 Future trends
- 1.7 Conclusion
- Books
- 1.8 References
- 2. Sensor data acquisition systems and architectures
- 3. Commonly used sensors for civil infrastructures and their associated algorithms
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4. Piezoelectric transducers for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
- Abstract:
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Principle of piezoelectricity
- 4.3 Piezoelectric materials and the fabrication of piezoelectric transducers
- 4.4 Piezoelectric transducers for SHM applications
- 4.5 Bonding effects
- 4.6 Limitations of piezoelectric transducers
- 4.7 SHM techniques using piezoelectric transducers
- 4.8 Applications of piezoelectric transducer-based SHM
- 4.9 Future trends
- 4.10 Conclusion
- 4.11 References
- 5. Fiber optic sensors for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
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6. Acoustic emission sensors for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
- Abstract:
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Fundamentals of acoustic emission (AE) technique
- 6.3 Interpretation of AE signals
- 6.4 AE localization methods
- 6.5 Severity assessment
- 6.6 AE equipment technology
- 6.7 Field applications and structural health monitoring using AE
- 6.8 Future challenges
- 6.9 Conclusion
- 6.10 References
- 7. Nonlinear acoustic and ultrasound methods for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
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8. Radar technology: radio frequency, interferometric, millimeter wave and terahertz sensors for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
- Abstract:
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Brief history of ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems
- 8.3 Current challenges and state of the art systems
- 8.4 Fundamentals of operation
- 8.5 Electromagnetic interactions with materials
- 8.6 Transmitter and receiver design
- 8.7 Signal processing
- 8.8 Laboratory and field studies
- 8.9 Conclusions and future trends
- 8.10 References
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9. Electromagnetic sensors for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
- Abstract:
- 9.1 Introduction to magnetics and magnetic materials
- 9.2 Introduction to magnetoelasticity
- 9.3 Magnetic sensory technologies
- 9.4 Role of microstructure in magnetization and magnetoelasticity
- 9.5 Magnetoelastic stress sensors for tension monitoring of steel cables
- 9.6 Temperature effects
- 9.7 Eddy current
- 9.8 Removable (portable) elastomagnetic stress sensor
- 9.9 Conclusion and future trends
- 9.10 References
- 10. Micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
- 11. Multifunctional materials and nanotechnology for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
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12. Laser-based sensing for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
- Abstract:
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Laser principles
- 12.3 Laser interferometry or electronic speckle pattern interferometry
- 12.4 Laser digital shearography
- 12.5 Laser scanning photogrammetry
- 12.6 Laser Doppler vibrometry
- 12.7 Laser-ultrasound
- 12.8 Other laser-based techniques
- 12.9 Civil infrastructure applications
- 12.10 Laser safety
- 12.11 Conclusion
- 12.12 References
- 13. Corrosion sensing for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
- 14. Vision-based sensing for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
- 15. Robotic sensing for assessing and monitoring civil infrastructures
- 16. Design and selection of wireless structural monitoring systems for civil infrastructures
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17. Permanent installation of wireless structural monitoring systems in infrastructure systems
- Abstract:
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Case study I – The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
- 17.3 Case study II – The Stork Bridge, Winterthur, Switzerland
- 17.4 Case study III – Jindo Bridge, Haenam/Jindo, South Korea
- 17.5 Case study IV – New Carquinez Bridge, Vallejo/ Crockett, California, USA
- 17.6 Conclusion
- 17.7 Acknowledgments
- 17.8 References
- 18. Energy harvesting for infrastructure sensing systems
- Index
Product information
- Title: Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructures, Volume 1
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2014
- Publisher(s): Woodhead Publishing
- ISBN: 9780857099136
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