| Recently, vibration-based structural health monitoring (VBSHM) techniques are attracting great interest for its adapting to civil engineering applications, where sensor captured vibration responses of the monitored structure due to ambient environmental loading, such as wind and traffic, are used to assess the condition of the structure. Adapting the VBSHM technique to continuous monitoring of large complex civil engineering structures results in the need to process and analyze large amount of monitoring data to extract the vibration characteristics of the system. It is obvious there is a very practical need for the development of advanced integrated computer tools to automate this complex process. The thesis concerns the development of such an important integrated computer platform, which greatly accelerates and streamlines the processing and analysis of data to extract important engineering information. The integrated computer platform includes separate modules for data-management, signal processing, data analysis, system identification, and visualization. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
