• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.473-487
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• 2012

GPS has become an established technique in structural health monitoring. This paper presents the application of an on-line GPS RTK system on the Zhujiang Huangpu Bridge (China) for monitoring bridge deck and towers movements. In this study, both the form and functions of movements of the deck and towers of the bridge under affecting loads were monitored in lateral, longitudinal and vertical directions. Such movements were described in time and frequency domains by determining the trend, torsion, periodical of the series using probability density function (PDF). The results of the time series GPS data are practical and useful to bridge health monitoring.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.641-659
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• 2010

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) gradually becomes a technique for ensuring the health and safety of civil infrastructures and is also an important approach for the research of the damage accumulation and disaster evolving characteristics of civil infrastructures. It is attracting prodigious research interests and the active development interests of scientists and engineers because a great number of civil infrastructures are planned and built every year in mainland China. In a SHM system the sheer number of accompanying wires, fiber optic cables, and other physical transmission medium is usually prohibitive, particularly for such structures as offshore platforms and long-span structures. Fortunately, with recent advances in technologies in sensing, wireless communication, and micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS), wireless sensor technique has been developing rapidly and is being used gradually in the SHM of civil engineering structures. In this paper, some recent advances in the research, development, and implementation of wireless sensors for the SHM of civil infrastructures in mainland China, especially in Dalian University of Technology (DUT) and Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), are introduced. Firstly, a kind of wireless digital acceleration sensors for structural global monitoring is designed and validated in an offshore structure model. Secondly, wireless inclination sensor systems based on Frequency-hopping techniques are developed and applied successfully to swing monitoring of large-scale hook structures. Thirdly, wireless acquisition systems integrating with different sensing materials, such as Polyvinylidene Fluoride(PVDF), strain gauge, piezoresistive stress/strain sensors fabricated by using the nickel powder-filled cement-based composite, are proposed for structural local monitoring, and validating the characteristics of the above materials. Finally, solutions to the key problem of finite energy for wireless sensors networks are discussed, with future works also being introduced, for example, the wireless sensor networks powered by corrosion signal for corrosion monitoring and rapid diagnosis for large structures.

• Journal of Community Nutrition
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.59-64
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• 2003

The National Nutrition Survey in Japan (NNS-J) started in 1945 and has provided information on dietary intake and health status of Japanese citizens to the public and policymakers for more than half a century. We summarized several relevant issues on the survey in this report : the current framework of the NNS-J in accordance with the Nutrition Improvement Law, utilization of the survey for nutrition and health policy in Japan, the Health Promotion Law recently enacted in 2003, the national plan for health promotion and disease prevention (Health Japan 21), and possible measures to improve the survey systems under the new law. We also mentioned implementation structures of regional health and nutrition surveys, because the Health Promotion Law designates an active role of local governments on promoting health for their citizens, which will enhance the needs for appropriate assessment of health and nutrition conditions in each community as well as the monitoring at the national level. (J Community Nutrition 5(2) : 59-64,2003)

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.82-88
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 안드로이드 기반의 모바일 플랫폼을 이용한 통합형 유헬스케어 시스템 설계하여 개인의 건강관리 서비스를 위한 시스템을 제안하였다. 통합형 생체 계측 시스템은 심전도, 산소포화도, 혈압, 호흡, 체온 등 모듈을 통하여 생체 신호를 계측하고 신호처리된 생체 정보를 무선 통신모듈을 이용하여 안드로이드 기반의 모바일 플랫폼 게이트웨이로 전송한다. 전송된 생체 데이터는 모바일 시스템에서 건강상태를 감시하거나 유헬스케어 서버로 전송하도로 설계하였다. 생체신호 감시 시스템을 구현함으로서 측정되어진 생체 데이터를 모니터링하여 현재의 건강상태를 확인할 수 있었으며 보호자의 이동성을 보장할 수 있는 장점을 보였다. 이와 같은 시스템은 개인 건강관리 및 응급환자 감시 시스템을 위한 유헬스케어 시스템 발전에 도움이 되리라 본다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.135-146
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• 2010

This paper presents the perspective of the Structural Mechanics program of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) on the damage assessment of structures for the period 2006-2009 when the author was serving as Program Manager at AFOSR. It is found that damage assessment of structures plays a very important role in assuring the safety and operational readiness of US Air Force fleet. The current fleet has many aging aircraft, which poses a considerable challenge for the operators and maintainers. The nondestructive evaluation technology is rather mature and able to detect damage with considerable reliability during the periodic maintenance inspections. The emerging structural health monitoring methodology has great potential, because it will use on-board damage detection sensors and systems, will be able to offer on-demand structural health bulletins. Considerable fundamental and applied research is still needed to enable the development, implementation, and dissemination of structural health monitoring technology.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방재학회 2008년도 정기총회 및 학술발표대회
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• pp.481-484
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• 2008

The research was carried out to suggest the bridge health monitoring systems that have been composed damage detection algorithm and a system for evaluation load carrying capacity of bridge by traffic loads for the purpose of safety management of bridge structure in efficient and economic.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.615-632
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• 2008

교량 건전성 모니터링은 응답 데이터를 활용한 구조모델링기술, 신호분석, 정보처리 기술의 발전에 따라 손상추정 및 안전성평가와 함께 중요한 연구주제로 부각되었다. 교량 모니터링 시스템은 일반적으로 센서, 데이터 취득장비, 전송시스템 등과 같은 하드웨어와 신호처리, 손상추정, 전시 및 데이터 관리 등과 같은 소프트웨어로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 교량의 건전도 모니터링을 위한 정보처리기술에 대한 연구 개발 활동을 정리하였다. 교량 건전성 모니터링의 과정에 대한 간단한 소개와 함께, 다양한 신호처리 및 손상추정 알고리즘을 포함한 정보처리기법에 대해서 소개하였다. 현 교량 건전성 모니터링 시스템에서의 주요 문제점과 향후 연구개발활동을 논의하였다.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2008년도 정기 학술대회
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• pp.544-547
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• 2008

In 1990, Korea building contractors were indifferent maintenance management cause focus on completion of construction before construction collapsed. Currently, structures monitoring systems are restrictive on large structures. Structures monitoring systems are limited many old and small structures in the whole nation. Recently, we make efforts application Ubiquitous technology as like sensor, sensor network system, and wireless communication system in construction. This paper applies bridge management system using Ubiquitous skill which is real-time monitoring report offering system.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.607-621
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• 2015

Wireless sensor technology has been opened up numerous opportunities to advanced health and maintenance monitoring of civil infrastructure. Compare to the traditional tactics, it offers a better way of providing relevant information regarding the condition of building structure health at a lower price. Numerous domestic buildings, especially longer-span buildings have a low frequency response and challenging to measure using deployed numbers of sensors. The way the sensor nodes are connected plays an important role in providing the signals with required strengths. Out of many topologies, the dense and sparse topologies wireless sensor network were extensively used in sensor network applications for collecting health information. However, it is still unclear which topology is better for obtaining health information in terms of greatest components, node's size and degree. Theoretical and computational issues arising in the selection of the optimum topology sensor network for estimating coverage area with sensor placement in building structural monitoring are addressed. This work is an attempt to fill this gap in high-rise building structural health monitoring application. The result shows that, the sparse topology sensor network provides better performance compared with the dense topology network and would be a good choice for monitoring high-rise building structural health damage.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.285-297
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• 2003

Complementing recent advances made in the field of structural health monitoring and damage detection, the concept of a wireless sensing network with distributed computational power is proposed. The fundamental building block of the proposed sensing network is a wireless sensing unit capable of acquiring measurement data, interrogating the data and transmitting the data in real time. The computational core of a prototype wireless sensing unit can potentially be utilized for execution of embedded engineering analyses such as damage detection and system identification. To illustrate the computational capabilities of the proposed wireless sensing unit, the fast Fourier transform and auto-regressive time-series modeling are locally executed by the unit. Fast Fourier transforms and auto-regressive models are two important techniques that have been previously used for the identification of damage in structural systems. Their embedment illustrates the computational capabilities of the prototype wireless sensing unit and suggests strong potential for unit installation in automated structural health monitoring systems.