A Simulated Data Benchmark Problem in Structural Health Monitoring

Significant advances have been made in structural health monitoring in recent years, and further breakthroughs have the potential to make structures safer by observing both long-term structural changes and immediate post-disaster damage. However, it is difficult to compare various health monitoring methods since the studies reported in the literature examine different structures and use different evaluation criteria. To provide a basis for common comparisons, this paper describes the first phase in a SHM benchmark problem organized by the IASCASCE Structural Health Monitoring Task Group. This first phase defines a series of simulated measured acceleration records for a scale-model structure, using several different building models and with various damage patterns. The ongoing activities of the Task Group are further detailed at http://wusceel.cive.wustl.edu/asce.shm/ .