Long-Term Monitoring for Supporting Maintenance Decisions

Newport Sensors, Inc. applies sensor-based structural health monitoring technology for supporting decisions on structural inspection, maintenance, and rehabilitation. The company has developed a software platform based on a number of structural health diagnostic algorithms that use structural stiffness as a health index. As a structure ages and deteriorates, its stiffness will alter, resulting in a change of vibration characteristic of the structures. Therefore, structural deterioration can be assessed by identifying the change in structural stiffness from measured structural vibration data. The Newport Sensors software platform can be customized to individual structures and integrated with their sensor monitoring systems.