Evaluating Structural Steel for Reuse through Field Monitoring
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Jennifer McConnell
Thomas Schumacher Erik T. Thostenson Tayler Wennick Philipp Keller |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Madrid 2014 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 3174-3181 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2014 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137814814069985 | ||||
| Abstract: |
While reuse of structural steel would greatly reduce the environmental impact associated with civil construction, this practice is rare. The research described in this paper is aimed at addressing one of the primary reasons for this: uncertainty regarding the structural integrity of reused members. Specifically, in addition to providing an overview of the environmental benefits of reusing structural steel, this paper will review the components of a wireless instrumentation plan of a steel- framed building, which includes traditional strain gauges as well as innovative carbon nanotube- based sensing skins with the intended capability of recording the full strain history of a member from its arrival at the construction site through a significant portion of its service life. The design of the instrumentation plan is motivated by the premise that the greatest concerns regarding future structural integrity in a reuse application are during construction and in the vicinity of connections. |
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| Keywords: |
strain construction residual stress laboratory testing reuse structural steel field testing Carbon nanotubes wireless sensor network sustainable buildings
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