The paper presents an application of an innovative control strategy called finite-state control to the conceptual design of a single layer truss adaptive structural system
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2008 (v1)Publication
This paper is derived from an invited lecture given at the CIMTEC '08 International Conference. The paper starts reviewing the problems that the structural engineer of tomorrow will have to solve by taking advantage of the smart technologies. As a second aspect, the paper summarizes the smart technologies already available or that will most...
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2013 (v1)Publication
Structural Health Monitoring is one of the preferred research topics in structural engineering but practical applications are still behind, at least in the civil sector. The paper is aimed at reviewing the main research achievements on the subject and to argue about the reasons because practical applications still encounter difficulties in...
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In the last years, SHM has been the subject of intensive developments also in civil engineer-ing. In practical applications, this has however resulted in complex instrumentation systems, difficult to be efficiently designed and expensive to be installed and maintained. Different approaches and a large variety of data interpretation tools have...
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Although Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) techniques can be considered relatively mature, at least from the scientific point of view, they have not yet become a standard practice in civil engineering because of several reasons. One of these reasons has been individuated in the lack of comprehensive standards addressing the complete SHM...
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In the paper, structural monitoring concepts are reviewed and the corresponding capabilities in providing reliable information on the structural conditions during the lifetime of the structure are summarized. Concepts like materials degradation, obsolescence, maintenance and life-cycle cost are discussed in relation to the benefits that the...
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Structural Health Monitoring is nowadays one of the preferred research topics in structural engineering disciplines but practical applications are still behind, at least in civil engineering. The paper is aimed at arguing about the reasons because practical applications still encounter difficulties in becoming a standard practice in civil...
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2012 (v1)Publication
The paper reviews the available approaches to the structural health monitoring of bridges and bridge-like structures (beam structures) and discusses some issues related to the use of real data and the resulting errors in damage identification.
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The paper discusses the reliability problem in damage detection for the structural health monitoring of bridges using static strain and displacement data
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2006 (v1)Publication
In the recent years, several structures have been equipped with permanent monitoring systems, able to record the response in terms of displacements and strains over very long periods of time and, theoretically, for the entire life of the structure. Despite of the number of applications, very few studies have been presented aimed at interpreting...
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2006 (v1)PublicationHealth Monitoring of R.C. Structures: a comparison of Static and Dynamic Approaches via Benchmarking
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2010 (v1)Publication
The concept of adaptive and morphing structures has gained considerable attention in the recent years in many fields of engineering. In civil engineering very few practical applications are however reported to date. Non-conventional structural concepts like deployable, inflatable and morphing structures may indeed provide innovative solutions...
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The authors have been conducting a static continuous monitoring experiment to assess the validity of some damage detection algorithms, consisting in non-model-based statistical data processing, previously validated, even for small levels of damage, on numerically simulated 2D finite element models of simply supported and continuous beams. Tests...
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2014 (v1)Publication
A peculiar aspect in Structural Health Monitoring is concerning the monitoring of vibrations in urban environments that may affect the integrity and conservation of architectural heritage buildings. The paper reviews the main issues on the subject and takes into consideration the problem of measuring and interpreting vibrations in buildings....
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