Metrological characterisation for the quality of the measurement process in a structural monitoring system

Author

Iuculano, Gaetano ; Catelani, Marcantonio ; De Mauro, Silvia ; Fissi, Silvia

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ingegneria Elettronica, Firenze Univ., Italy

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

386

Abstract

A digitally controlled monitoring system has been installed to observe and control the propagation of cracks in the Brunelleschi Dome in Florence. The real time availability of data makes it reasonable to think of some type of statistical process control able to check either a possible incorrect functioning of the measurement and recording instruments or an anomalous behaviour of the structure or both. In this paper a statistical approach is proposed to characterise the measures supplied by the system. The aim is to avoid the temporal variability of the physical quantities measured. So it would be possible to analyse a dynamic process as a static one

Keywords

computerised monitoring; crack detection; identification; real-time systems; statistical analysis; stochastic systems; structural engineering computing; Brunelleschi Dome; Florence; digitally controlled monitoring; dynamic process; measurement process; physical quantities; quality; real time availability; recording instruments; statistical process control; structural monitoring system; temporal variability; Automatic control; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Instruments; Manufacturing industries; Process control; Quality control; Remote monitoring; Temperature sensors; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1999. IMTC/99. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE

Conference_Location

Venice

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5276-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.1999.776781

Filename

776781