A Multi-Sensory Approach to Structural Health Monitoring of Buried Sewer Pipelines Infrastructure System

摘要: Pipeline infrastructure is decaying at an accelerating rate due to reduced funding, insufficient quality control resulting in poor installation, little or no inspection and maintenance, a general lack of uniformity improvement design, construction operation practices, among other things. New knowledge needed provide the intellectual support for pipeline decisions necessary sustain economic growth, environmental quality, improved societal health. Developing intelligent information system can fast reliable decision-making tools that are handle large volume deteriorating buried systems, particularly water wastewater pipelines, pose serious threats environment if they fail. The dramatic growth development use sensors technology (IT) has had untold impact upon nature performance fundamental civil systems our economy social environment. Sensors IT have potential address many issues faced, by providing detection capability condition, coordination complex operations, integration multi-modal multi-locational facilities seamless services consumers. A research project underway newly created Infrastructure Research Center (PIRC) Pennsylvania State University, determine multi-sensory method be used structural health monitoring system. This paper presents PIRC's preliminary efforts.