Project Background

A civil engineering structure, a building or a bridge, undergoes many changes during its lifetime. Knowing the state of a structure is very important because we always strive to save lives in emergency situations and improve overall quality of life for people who use the structure. Recent advances in sensing and network technologies make it possible to collect a multitude of various data in and around the structure and to establish its state in a much more comprehensive manner than ever before by integrating this data. The goal of this project is to conceptualize, develop and implement a prototype of a framework for gathering, classification and integration of structural state data collected in and around a structure, and to enable effective visualization and fusion of such data to define the state of a structure. The components of the proposed prototype framework are structural state data types and meta-data, a structural state database, and database visual access tool built using Virtual Reality Modeling Language. Utility of this prototype framework will be evaluated using a small-scale shaking table test of an instrumented model frame

Project Objectives

1. Define types of structural state data.
2. Define data structures for structural state data.
3. Define a data structure access paradigm
4. Verify using an experiment

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