A wireless structural health monitoring system with multithreaded sensing devices: Design and validation

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 103-120

  Wang, Yang ^a   Lynch, Jerome P ^b   Law, Kincho H ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; On board data processing; Sensor networks; Structural monitoring; Vibration tests; Wireless sensing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; DATA ACQUISITION; HEALTH; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MONITORING; OPTICAL DESIGN; SENSORS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TELECOMMUNICATION; TESTING;

CABLE INSTALLATIONS; CIVIL STRUCTURES; DATA COLLECTIONS; DATA COMMUNICATIONS; FIELD TESTING; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; LABORATORY TESTING; LOW POWERS; MONITOR (CO); MULTI-THREADED; MULTI-THREADED SOFTWARE; PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) COMMUNICATIONS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME DATA ACQUISITION; SENSING DEVICES; SOUTH KOREA; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING (SHM); STRUCTURAL MONITORING; SYNCHRONIZED DATA; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; WIRELESS MONITORING SYSTEMS; WIRELESS SENSING; WIRELESS STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; WIRELESS TRANSCEIVERS; WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 34249713152     PISSN: 15732479     EISSN: 17448980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732470600590820     Document Type: Article

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