APPLICATION OF SENSOR BASED CIVIONICS TECHNOLOGIESTO HARD INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ASSESSMENT,STRUCTURAL INTEGRITYAND HEALTH MONITORING

Abstract

A sensor is a device which detects or measures a physical property and records, indicates or otherwise responds to it. Civionics is a special field of study which is a combination of Civil and Electronics. Hard Infrastructures corresponds to all types of infrastructures likeBuildings, Bridges, Industries, and Heritage Infrastructure etc. Some absolutes of structure defines as long as structures will keep on getting build, failures will keep occurring and it will keep the forensics busy for a long time. Some of primary causes of structural failure includes deferred maintenance, overloading, design flaws, material failures or combination of above. This fear of failure will put stakeholders to take action and one such action is application of sensor based civionics technologies.