Short- or long-term monitoring of the structures' behavior and integrity can extend their lifetime operation past their design life, resulting in huge savings.
Reduction of Operation Risk
Early detection of damage leads to prevention of critical assets and structural faults, reducing intervention times and repair costs.
Design Validation
Instrumentation of structures during construction can be a valuable tool to validate sophisticated construction methods and new materials.
"The last few decades have seen an amazing boost in the number of existing civil-engineering structures as well as in the resistance that is required of them.(...) As these structures need to withstand the exponential increase of applied loads, impacts or environmental burdens, the assessment of the resulting structural behavior is becoming mandatory so that faults can be detected in the early stages and safety is guaranteed." Read full article available below: