Citizen sensors for SHM: Use of accelerometer data from smartphones

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 2980-2998

  Feng, Maria ^a   Fukuda, Yoshio ^a   Mizuta, Masato ^a   Ozer, Ekin ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Citizen sensors; Civil engineering structures; Modal identification; Post event damage assessment; Smartphone sensors; Structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; BIG DATA; DAMAGE DETECTION; DYNAMIC LOADS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOLOGY; SENSOR NETWORKS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); WHITE NOISE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES; CROWDSOURCING PLATFORMS; DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS; EARTHQUAKE EXCITATION; MODAL IDENTIFICATION; STRUCTURAL MODELING; STRUCTURAL VIBRATIONS; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 84961289771     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150202980     Document Type: Article

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