Civil Engineering
The DITEST-SHM (Structural Health Monitoring) system is designed to provide accurate and complete information about actual infrastructure conditions in real-time. It offers unique and proven structural health monitoring capabilities for civil engineering structures.
Fiber optic monitoring of large infrastructures has developed in a complete and innovative Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) strategy which goes beyond the detection of damage occurrence in critical infrastructures such as bridges, dams, buildings, storage tanks, etc.
DITEST-SHM Solution is aiming at providing comprehensive information about the structural health of civil engineering infrastructures and their long term evolution by measuring and mapping temperature and strain variations.
DITEST-SHM : Structural Health Monitoring solution
In addition to an enhanced safety, SMH is looking at an extended service life through proper system management and preventive maintenance, eventually resulting in cost reduction by monitoring the structure load-bearing capacity instead over-designed structural elements. In seismic sensitive area, DITEST-SHM offers solutions that dramatically improve the safety assessment of infrastructure after earthquake occurrences.
Various fiber optic sensor designs are available for strain monitoring combining reliability, excellent strain transfer from structure to fiber, strain range and mechanical strength. They are designed for deployment in large infrastructure and are compatible with bonding requirements, direct integration in concrete structures, discrete anchoring points.