An Embedded Wireless Sensor Network with Wireless Power Transmission Capability for the Structural Health Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete Structures
Maintenance strategies based on structural health monitoring can provide effective support in the optimization of scheduled repair of existing structures, thus enabling their lifetime to be extended. With specific regard to reinforced concrete (RC) structures, the state of the art seems to still be...
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| author | Luca Gallucci Costantino Menna Leopoldo Angrisani Domenico Asprone Rosario Schiano Lo Moriello Francesco Bonavolontà Francesco Fabbrocino |
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| description | Maintenance strategies based on structural health monitoring can provide effective support in the optimization of scheduled repair of existing structures, thus enabling their lifetime to be extended. With specific regard to reinforced concrete (RC) structures, the state of the art seems to still be lacking an efficient and cost-effective technique capable of monitoring material properties continuously over the lifetime of a structure. Current solutions can typically only measure the required mechanical variables in an indirect, but economic, manner, or directly, but expensively. Moreover, most of the proposed solutions can only be implemented by means of manual activation, making the monitoring very inefficient and then poorly supported. This paper proposes a structural health monitoring system based on a wireless sensor network (WSN) that enables the automatic monitoring of a complete structure. The network includes wireless distributed sensors embedded in the structure itself, and follows the monitoring-based maintenance (MBM) approach, with its ABCDE paradigm, namely: accuracy, benefit, compactness, durability, and easiness of operations. The system is structured in a node level and has a network architecture that enables all the node data to converge in a central unit. Human control is completely unnecessary until the periodic evaluation of the collected data. Several tests are conducted in order to characterize the system from a metrological point of view and assess its performance and effectiveness in real RC conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-708caf5526c648b7bc0b106b1194f5e82022-12-22T04:25:15ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202017-11-011711256610.3390/s17112566s17112566An Embedded Wireless Sensor Network with Wireless Power Transmission Capability for the Structural Health Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete StructuresLuca Gallucci0Costantino Menna1Leopoldo Angrisani2Domenico Asprone3Rosario Schiano Lo Moriello4Francesco Bonavolontà5Francesco Fabbrocino6TME s.r.l.—Test and Manufacturing Engineering, via C. A. Dalla Chiesa—81050, Portico di Caserta (CE), ItalyDipartimento di Strutture per l’Ingegneria e l’Architettura, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, ItalyDipartimento di Strutture per l’Ingegneria e l’Architettura, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria, Università Telematica Pegaso-Piazza Trieste e Trento 48, 80132 Naples, ItalyMaintenance strategies based on structural health monitoring can provide effective support in the optimization of scheduled repair of existing structures, thus enabling their lifetime to be extended. With specific regard to reinforced concrete (RC) structures, the state of the art seems to still be lacking an efficient and cost-effective technique capable of monitoring material properties continuously over the lifetime of a structure. Current solutions can typically only measure the required mechanical variables in an indirect, but economic, manner, or directly, but expensively. Moreover, most of the proposed solutions can only be implemented by means of manual activation, making the monitoring very inefficient and then poorly supported. This paper proposes a structural health monitoring system based on a wireless sensor network (WSN) that enables the automatic monitoring of a complete structure. The network includes wireless distributed sensors embedded in the structure itself, and follows the monitoring-based maintenance (MBM) approach, with its ABCDE paradigm, namely: accuracy, benefit, compactness, durability, and easiness of operations. The system is structured in a node level and has a network architecture that enables all the node data to converge in a central unit. Human control is completely unnecessary until the periodic evaluation of the collected data. Several tests are conducted in order to characterize the system from a metrological point of view and assess its performance and effectiveness in real RC conditions.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/11/2566structural health monitoringwireless sensor networkembedded sensorswireless power transmission |
| spellingShingle | Luca Gallucci Costantino Menna Leopoldo Angrisani Domenico Asprone Rosario Schiano Lo Moriello Francesco Bonavolontà Francesco Fabbrocino An Embedded Wireless Sensor Network with Wireless Power Transmission Capability for the Structural Health Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete Structures Sensors structural health monitoring wireless sensor network embedded sensors wireless power transmission |
| title | An Embedded Wireless Sensor Network with Wireless Power Transmission Capability for the Structural Health Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete Structures |
| title_full | An Embedded Wireless Sensor Network with Wireless Power Transmission Capability for the Structural Health Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete Structures |
| title_fullStr | An Embedded Wireless Sensor Network with Wireless Power Transmission Capability for the Structural Health Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete Structures |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Embedded Wireless Sensor Network with Wireless Power Transmission Capability for the Structural Health Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete Structures |
| title_short | An Embedded Wireless Sensor Network with Wireless Power Transmission Capability for the Structural Health Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete Structures |
| title_sort | embedded wireless sensor network with wireless power transmission capability for the structural health monitoring of reinforced concrete structures |
| topic | structural health monitoring wireless sensor network embedded sensors wireless power transmission |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/11/2566 |
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