Available full-scale on-site wind-induced data from a major tall building

Durgin, Frank H.; Gilbert, Timothy; Macachor, Jennifer R.

doi:10.1016/0167-6105(90)90117-u

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“…Long before the term structural health monitoring (SHM) was coined, buildings were instrumented and monitored in situations where their performance was suspect, e.g., the John Hancock Tower in Boston (Durgin 1990). These unsavory origins made the concept of proactive monitoring, particularly for buildings, quite foreign, as owners were naturally reluctant to install instrumentation systems for fear that this may tarnish the reputation of their buildings.…”

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SmartSync: An Integrated Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring and Structural Identification System for Tall Buildings

et al. 2013

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This study introduces a unique prototype system for structural health monitoring (SHM), SmartSync, which uses the building's existing Internet backbone as a system of virtual instrumentation cables to permit modular and largely plug-and-play deployments. Within this framework, data streams from distributed heterogeneous sensors are pushed through network interfaces in real time and seamlessly synchronized and aggregated by a centralized server, which performs basic data acquisition, event triggering, and database management while also providing an interface for data visualization and analysis that can be securely accessed. The system enables a scalable approach to monitoring tall and complex structures that can readily interface a variety of sensors and data formats (analog and digital) and can even accommodate variable sampling rates. This study overviews the SmartSync system, its installation/operation in the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, and proof-of-concept in triggering under dual excitations (wind and earthquake).

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