STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING
It is all in the name; Structural monitoring of the physical condition of infrastructural objects of installations.
A yearly check of your car, a periodical check of your health, a safety check of the plane before every take off, is part of normal behaviour. In the area of (railway) bridges, fly-overs, tunnels and several other types of infrastructural objects like GSM pylons, electricity pylons and windmills this is not the case.
Most important advantages of our solutions:
- Real-Time information;
- No power on location;
- No interference;
- Online access based on TCP/IP;
- Accuracy on micrometre level;
- NO resources for local inspection;
- Big distance possible between system and object (up to 50KM);
- Predictability of maintenance.
What can be measured?
- Time
- Speed passages
- Bending
- Recovery to it’s position
- Deformation
- Vibration
- Vertical speed
- Influence of use
- Cracks
- Material fatigue
- Weight
- Temperature
- Settlement / movement
Applicability?
- Bending (rail) bridges;
- Vertical speed of bridges / fly-overs;
- Monitoring energy pylons and windmills to critical bending position;
- Impact of traffic increase to roads, bridges, fly-overs, et cetera;
- Monitoring the construction of tunnels, sewers, roof-construction, aqua-ducts;
- Monitoring of temperature (fire detection) in tunnels;
- Monitoring of traffic flow.