A New Strategy for Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring Based on Symbolic Data Objects
Palavras-chave:
structural health monitoring, symbolic data object, real-time, experimental applicationResumo
Many recent researches have been using Symbolic Data Objects (SDO) as the basis for Structural Health
Monitoring (SHM). The advantage of using SDOs is that they have a very strong capacity to compress raw data,
without losing the essence of the original information. This work presents a complete methodology to perform a
real-time SHM, which was implemented in a software developed by the authors called TW-Parallel. A practical
application was tested in a real structure: a historic tower in Mantua, Italy, called the Gabbia tower. The results
showed that, after an adaptation period - when some false alarms occurred - the software was able to accurately
detect a seismic event that occurred during the structure monitoring period.
