developing a hybrid bim-based structural health monitoring system for safety enhancement

developing a hybrid bim-based structural health monitoring system for safety enhancement

structural health monitoring systems can provide us the requisite information about the level of the structural damage caused by an earthquake, immediately after its occurrence. nowadays, one of the most prominent subjects discussed in the fields of structural maintenance and safety is to find algorithms to process the invaluable information obtained from sensors and also to present simple but practical criteria in order to assess the ongoing structural health state. this study aims to acquire a reasonable and appropriate evaluation of the structural health after the earthquake and investigate building serviceability by estimating the level and location of the damage. this can significantly contribute to the decision of immediate building evacuation well as in time rehabilitation of damaged members. the developed system is applied on a 5-story building which was modeled in revit software and by defining a health monitoring system, the level and location of damage caused by a specific earthquake are determined. finally, employing such a hybrid system (bim-shm) enables visualizing the damaged part and facilitating the process of safety-related decisions.