Structural Health Monitoring

Structural Health Monitoring means understanding the dynamic behavior and identifying the types of structural damage that exist. This is mainly done by using precision tools such as accelerometers and seismometers installed on buildings and by numerically processing their signals. In this method, by analyzing the environmental vibrations of the buildings, the dynamic characteristics of the actual structures such as hardness, mass and damping are estimated, which will be a good basis for assessing the vulnerability of the buildings and choosing how to improve them. Structural health monitoring is also a way of predicting the useful life of specific structures such as bridges, dams and so on.