Crack Detection for Civil Engineering Structures | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is one of the emerging fields in which smart technology is used to inspect the civil engineeringstructure components to prevent from failure. SHM will detect the fundamental properties such as cracks in the structure and expedite needed repairs, and thus increase the useful life of those components.The safety measures related to civil engineering structures with respect to age of the structure, structural damage, climatic conditions like flood, heavy rains, earthquake, etc. is the prime role of the concerned authorized engineers. In the development of economy and society, many structures have been built which should meet the requirement of the serviceability, safety and sustainability during the operation stage throughout its life cycle. But due some reasons the structure gets weak and cracks starts developing within the components. Gradually the crack expands which leads the structure to collapse. To avoid the failure of structure the cracks must be detected at early stage and this could be done by using piezoelectric film. Using IoT ,the piezoelectric film shows the crack detection on bridge. This was major concern in our findings due to which we have made an ideology in our research to overcome this problem and to bring up safety majors in our real-life problems.