Conference Article

·2017

Non-contact and real-time displacement measurement system for structural health monitoring

Koray Gürkan YTU , Ahmet Anıl Dindar YTU , Suleyman Akbaba , Nedim Onur Aykut YTU , Burak Akpmar YTU

International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Abstract

In this paper, a multi-channel high-rate laser displacement sensor system accompanied with an open-source data acquisition software for structural health monitoring was explained. Hardware part of the system composed of three laser triangulation sensors with a resolution of 0.1 mm and a measurement acquisition rate at 70 Hz each. The software part is developed under Python open-source environment and handles initiation of data acquisition, data synchronization and data logging. The developed system was tested for reliability using a free vibration of a three-story model with a set of shaking-table tests and results are presented.

Keywords

Data acquisition Structural health monitoring Software Computer science Real-time computing Synchronization (alternating current) Displacement (psychology) Python (programming language) Laser Computer hardware Engineering Channel (broadcasting) Structural engineering Optics Telecommunications

Subject Areas

Structural Health Monitoring Techniques ·Civil and Structural Engineering ·Physical Sciences
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