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SUMMARY:Vibration based Structural Health Monitoring: from Bridges to Wind
  Turbines - Filipe Magalhães Assistant Professor\, Faculty of Engineering
 \, University of Porto\, Portugal
DTSTART:20160506T140000Z
DTEND:20160506T150000Z
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CONTACT:Lorna Everett
DESCRIPTION:This talk starts with an introduction to vibration based Struc
 tural Health Monitoring\, with emphasis on the main steps of a methodology
  based on the continuous and automated identification of the structure mod
 al properties and on the analysis of their evolution with statistical tool
 s that aim the detection of abnormal patterns.\n\nThe described approach i
 s then illustrated in the context of research driven monitoring project of
  a concrete arch bridge with a span of 280m. Afterwards\, the value of the
  developed monitoring tools is proven with the presentation of two applica
 tions developed in the context of consultancy projects in two other bridge
 s.\n\nFinally\, the application of the tools - originally developed for th
 e condition assessment of bridges - in the monitoring of wind turbines is 
 demonstrated\, with the description of the outcomes obtained during a one-
 year monitoring project in a wind turbine.\n\nThe results presented for al
 l the applications will stress not only the ability of the described proce
 ssing algorithms for the detection of damages\, or structural changes\, bu
 t also their usefulness for better understanding the behavior of the instr
 umented structures under normal operating condition\n
LOCATION: Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LR6
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