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SUMMARY:Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructure: from Researc
 h to Engineering Practice - Bill Spencer
DTSTART:20130118T130000Z
DTEND:20130118T140000Z
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CONTACT:CSIC Administrator
DESCRIPTION:The ability to continuously monitor the integrity of civil inf
 rastructure in real-time offers the opportunity to reduce maintenance and 
 inspection costs\, while providing for increased safety to the public. Fur
 thermore\, after natural disasters\, it is imperative that emergency facil
 ities and evacuation routes\, including bridges and highways\, be assessed
  for safety. Addressing all of these issues is the objective of structural
  health monitoring (SHM).\n\nSmart sensors densely distributed over struct
 ures can provide rich information for structural health monitoring using t
 heir sensing\, computational\, and wireless communication capabilities. Th
 ough smart sensor technology has seen substantial advances during recent y
 ears\, implementation of smart sensors on full-scale structures has been l
 imited\; interdisciplinary efforts to address issues in sensors\, networks
 \, and application specific algorithms have only now begun to germinate. F
 ollowing an overview of these issues\, a new paradigm for structural healt
 h monitoring employing a network of smart sensors will be presented. Becau
 se of its ability to meet the demands of data intensive applications such 
 as SHM\, MEMSIC’s Imote2 is adopted for this research. The system is dep
 loyed to monitor the Jindo Bridge\, a cable-stayed bridge in South Korea w
 ith a 344m main span.  This project constitutes the world’s largest depl
 oyment of wireless sensors to monitor civil infrastructure and signifies a
  new paradigm for structural health monitoring that is leading to dramatic
  improvements over existing capabilities.\n
LOCATION: Cambridge University Engineering Department
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