Development of a wireless crane structural health monitoring system

This proposed project aims to design a real time structural health monitoring (SHM) system for tower crane structures that dominate construction sites to assure their safety. This research will focus on the critical sections within the complex crane structure and examine the effects of structural da...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Muhammad Danial Fadzlon.
Other Authors: Ma Guowei
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15860
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Summary:This proposed project aims to design a real time structural health monitoring (SHM) system for tower crane structures that dominate construction sites to assure their safety. This research will focus on the critical sections within the complex crane structure and examine the effects of structural damage to the crane’s global behavior. The whole crane structure will be linked and monitored by strain gauges and Linear Variable Displacement Transducers (LVDT). All changes in stress or any other static parameters of the crane structure can be detected immediately. Thus catastrophic failure of the structure can be averted.