Health Monitoring of Nuclear Structure Containment Using Strain Gauges to Assess the Integrity
Author(s) -
A.K. Parande,
John M. Kennedy,
Karthikeyan Muniraj,
R. A. Jeyaram,
A. Sivashanmugam,
R.H. Suresh Bapu,
N. Palaniswamy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
isrn construction engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2314-6370
DOI - 10.1155/2013/149458
Subject(s) - strain gauge , containment (computer programming) , structural health monitoring , strain (injury) , structural integrity , containment building , structural engineering , reliability engineering , nuclear engineering , computer science , forensic engineering , engineering , systems engineering , medicine , accident management , programming language
Assessment of concrete structures and prediction of their health and life could be possible by online monitoring of the stress/strain level and is an intelligent tool to prevent accidents. Measuring strain pattern on structures is vital to evaluate the health of forced members. The present paper describes the methodology, instrumentation line up, and coding for LabVIEW software for continuous online strain data acquisition of structures for nuclear structures. The performance of strain gauges on concrete and steel containment structures of nuclear reactor and to assess the integrity and health of the containment structure is emphases in this research paper.
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