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For measuring the structural health of buildings, high-performance vibration detection devices are used in a structural health monitoring (SHM) system, which consists of a sensor and a data logger. Those devices are seismographs or devices with high-performance sensors which are expensive. Recently, smartphones are being used as seismographs to accumulate big data of earthquake wave detection because they have accelerometers of microelectromechanical systems. Since a smartphone has the functions of a detection sensor and a data logger, a low-cost SHM system can be developed by using a low-cost smartphone. In this paper, smartphones were used to confirm the possibility of the development of a low-cost SHM system. To evaluate the vibration detection performance from small displacement and large displacement, smartphones were installed in a specimen of a large shaking table test. The specimen is a scale model of a two-story non-reinforced masonry-filled reinforce concrete (RC) frame building. The natural period and interstory drift ratio were used as the evaluation criteria. The natural period estimated by the smartphone data agreed with that found by the piezoelectric accelerometer data. For estimating the building deformation, which is related to building stability, the measurement performance for large deformation using smartphones was evaluated. The smartphones have 90% or higher accuracies for the estimation of the maximum acceleration and displacement.

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The seismic performance of a vibration isolator bed system for emergency diesel engine generators was evaluated in this study. A shaking table test and numerical analysis were used for the evaluations. The ICC-ES AC156 test method was applied to the shaking table test, as recommended by ASCE 7. For inducing the input spectral acceleration, the generator was assumed at the highest location of a building. After the shaking table test, structural and functional rigidities were observed by visual inspection and functional testing. It was possible to evaluate the structural rigidity of the vibration isolator bed system for emergency diesel generators in greater detail through a numerical analysis.