Wireless sensors are more favorable in measuring structural response compared to conventional sensors in terms of them being easier to use with no issues with cables and them being considerably cheaper. Previous tests have been conducted to analyze the performance of MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) sensor in sinusoidal excitation tests. This paper analyzes the performance of in-built MEMS sensors in devices by comparing with an ICP sensor as the reference. Earthquake input amplitude excitation in shaking table tests was done. Results show that MEMS sensors are more accurate in measuring higher input amplitude measurements which range from 100gal to 250gal than at lower input amplitudes which range from 10gal to 50gal. This confirms the results obtained in previous sinusoidal tests. It was also seen that natural frequency results have lower error values which range from 0% to 3.92% in comparison to the response spectra results. This also confirms that in-built MEMS sensors in mobile devices are good at estimating natural frequency of structures. In addition, it was also seen that earthquake input amplitudes with more frequency contents (Gyeongju) had considerably higher error values than Pohang excitation tests which has less frequency contents.

In this study, a powerful new approach to vehicle-bridge interaction observation in operational bridge structures is proposed using University of Michigan’s Narada wireless sensors. Based on the novel data acquisition, dynamic behavior of a bridge under a moving vehicle is experimentally analyzed.

Recently, Advanced automated infrastructure measurements have been made in the Honam high speed railway test-bed. In the future, Real time measurements will be the common based on these technologies. Here, we looked at the domestic and international trends and utilizing the inspection method of Railway Structures using self-powered sensors and wireless network technologies.

System identification was performed on the swing span of a steel truss bridge using a wireless sensor network. The swing span can rotate 360° to allow river traffic to pass through the locks located under the bridge. The twenty-two wireless sensor nodes were installed on the span to measure synchronized tri-axial acceleration. Modal properties of the bridge according to its different positions were successfully obtained using frequency domain decomposition method, and compared with the ones from the FE model of the bridge.

In this paper, a research was performed to estimate dynamic characteristics of bridges using wireless sensors. First, the developed wireless sensors were compared with wired sensors through laboratory tests. Field tests were carried out on a steel box girder bridge. Dynamic characteristics of the test bridge were identified from the measured data by wireless sensors. As a result, it was proven that the wireless sensor system could be effectively applied to the measurement of large civil-infra structures.

대부분의 구조물 안전성 평가에 있어서 전체적인 거동을 나타내는 인자, 즉 기하학적인 형상 변화를 추정하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 종래에는 현장에서 교량의 처짐을 손쉽게 측정할 수 있는 적절한 수단과 방법의 부재로 말미암아, 처짐의 측정이 제한된 측정점에 국한되었고, 또한 변위계를 설치한 개소에 한정되었다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) 기반의 무선 경사센서모듈(Wireless Tiltmeter)을 통해 건설구조물의 처짐을 추정하는 방법을 개발하고, 기존의 변위 측정 자기 센서(Linear Variable Differential Transformer: LVDT)를 이용해 측정하는 기술 대신, 유비쿼터스 개념의 무선 경사 센서 모듈의 경사 변화에 따른 저항의 변화를 전압의 형식으로 출력하고, 교정계수를 이용하여 실제 처짐각 및 처짐으로 환산하여 최대 처짐을 구하도록 개발된 유비쿼터스 기반의 처짐 추정방법을 검증하기 위하여 실내 실험을 수행하였고, 그 결과, 측정점에 상관없이 균일한 측정이 가능하고, 기존의 방법과 거의 일치하는 값을 나타내는 것으로 확인되었다.