Health facilities are strategic infrastructures at urban and territorial scale, particularly in the case of hazardous environmental events, such as earthquakes. Nevertheless, damage to structural as well as non-structural members, equipment and installations may affect their functionality. This is the reason why a scientific and technical effort is needed not only to improve structural performance, but also to deploy effective solutions and strategies aimed at quickly assessing the performance and health state of health facilities. The present paper provides an overview of hardware and software solutions for seismic Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of health facilities. Attention is particularly focused on data processing and modal based damage detection procedures for timely detection of earthquake-induced damage. Moreover, the role of vibration measurements for seismic characterization and monitoring of non-structural components is discussed with reference to a real case study. Data from a permanent monitoring system are collected and manipulated to simulate the effect of damage. Such data are used to assess the anomaly detection performance of the system and validate the promising applicative perspectives of the described hardware/software architecture. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
Hardware and software solutions for seismic SHM of hospitals
Rainieri, C.
Primo
;Gargaro, D.Secondo
;Fabbrocino, G.Ultimo
2019-01-01
Abstract
Health facilities are strategic infrastructures at urban and territorial scale, particularly in the case of hazardous environmental events, such as earthquakes. Nevertheless, damage to structural as well as non-structural members, equipment and installations may affect their functionality. This is the reason why a scientific and technical effort is needed not only to improve structural performance, but also to deploy effective solutions and strategies aimed at quickly assessing the performance and health state of health facilities. The present paper provides an overview of hardware and software solutions for seismic Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of health facilities. Attention is particularly focused on data processing and modal based damage detection procedures for timely detection of earthquake-induced damage. Moreover, the role of vibration measurements for seismic characterization and monitoring of non-structural components is discussed with reference to a real case study. Data from a permanent monitoring system are collected and manipulated to simulate the effect of damage. Such data are used to assess the anomaly detection performance of the system and validate the promising applicative perspectives of the described hardware/software architecture. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
