• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2012

This paper presents the effect of temperature on the impedance-based damage monitoring of steel-bolt connections using wireless impedance sensor nodes. In order to achieve the objective, the following approaches are implemented. First, a temperature-compensated damage monitoring scheme that includes a temperature compensation model and damage detection method is described. The temperature compensation model is designed by analyzing the linear regressions between the temperatures and impedance signatures. The correlation coefficient of the impedance signatures is selected as the damage index to monitor the damage occurrence in the target structures. Second, a wireless impedance sensor node is described for the design of the hardware components and embedded software. Finally, the performance of the temperature-compensated impedance-based damage monitoring scheme is evaluated for detecting a loose bolt in the steel-bolt connections on a lab-scale steel girder under various temperatures.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.393-416
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• 2011

Hybrid acceleration-impedance sensor nodes on Imote2-platform are designed for damage monitoring in steel girder connections. Thus, the feasibility of the sensor nodes is examined about its performance for vibration-based global monitoring and impedance-based local monitoring in the structural systems. To achieve the objective, the following approaches are implemented. First, a damage monitoring scheme is described in parallel with global vibration-based methods and local impedance-based methods. Second, multi-scale sensor nodes that enable combined acceleration-impedance monitoring are described on the design of hardware components and embedded software to operate. Third, the performances of the multi-scale sensor nodes are experimentally evaluated from damage monitoring in a lab-scaled steel girder with bolted connection joints.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.217-223
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• 2007

This paper introduces an active sensing node using radio-frequency (RF) telemetry. This device has brought the traditional impedance-based structural health monitoring (SHM) technique to a new paradigm. The RF active sensing node consists of a miniaturized impedance measuring device (AD5933), a microcontroller (ATmega128L), and a radio frequency (RF) transmitter (XBee). A macro-fiber composite (MFC) patch interrogates a host structure by using a self-sensing technique of the miniaturized impedance measuring device. All the process including structural interrogation, data acquisition, signal processing, and damage diagnostic is being performed at the sensor location by the microcontroller. The RF transmitter is used to communicate the current status of the host structure. The feasibility of the proposed SHM strategy is verified through an experimental study inspecting loose bolts in a bolt-jointed aluminum structure.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.6 no.5_6
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• pp.711-730
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• 2010

This study presents the design of autonomous smart sensor nodes for damage monitoring of tendons and girders in prestressed concrete (PSC) bridges. To achieve the objective, the following approaches are implemented. Firstly, acceleration-based and impedance-based smart sensor nodes are designed for global and local structural health monitoring (SHM). Secondly, global and local SHM methods which are suitable for damage monitoring of tendons and girders in PSC bridges are selected to alarm damage occurrence, to locate damage and to estimate severity of damage. Thirdly, an autonomous SHM scheme is designed for PSC bridges by implementing the selected SHM methods. Operation logics of the SHM methods are programmed based on the concept of the decentralized sensor network. Finally, the performance of the proposed system is experimentally evaluated for a lab-scaled PSC girder model for which a set of damage scenarios are experimentally monitored by the developed smart sensor nodes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06d
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• pp.388-392
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• 2010

지하 배관 구조물은 국가 주요 자원의 수송망을 책임지는 핵심적인 기능을 수행하는 시설물로써, 배관구조물의 노후화와 부식, 균열, 조인트 풀림 등의 손상으로 인한 누출사고 발생 시 막대한 사회 경제적 손실을 초래할 우려가 있다. 특히, 지중배관 및 노출배관 경우에는, 현장 작업상황이 지속적으로 변화하고 있는 상황에서 24시간 안전관리에 대한 감시체계가 미흡한 것이 현실이다. 고가의 센서설치 및 배관의 유지관리 비용 등의 문제를 극복하려는 센서개발 연구 및 센서로부터 취득된 계측데이터를 현장에서 분석하여 실시간으로 배관의 이상상태를 판정하여 원격으로 그 판정결과를 알려주는 유비쿼터스 원격감시기법에 대한 연구 및 기술개발이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 USN 기술을 활용한 배관안전진단 기술을 소개하고 임피던스 기반의 자가 감지 기법을 활용한 다양한 구조의 배관에 대해 진단 연구를 수행 하였다.