Full-scale laboratory validation of a wireless MEMS-based technology for damage assessment of concrete structures

Trapani, Davide; Zonta, Daniele; Molinari, Marco; Amditis, Angelos; Bimpas, Matthaios; Bertsch, Nicolas; Spiering, V.L.; Santana, Juan Ramón; Sterken, Tom; Torfs, Tom; Bairaktaris, D.; Bairaktaris, Manos; Camarinopulos, Stephanos; Frondistou-Yannas, M; Ulieru, Dumitru Gh.

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“…However, the offer of commercial MEMS is very wide and new products with increased performance are continuously released, making it pretty easy to choose the sensor with the desired requirements for earthquake observation and structural monitoring systems. The effectiveness of several commercial MEMS has been proved by means of various validation techniques [22,23,24,25,26,27,28]. Many studies focused on the accelerometers integrated in the smartphones just because of their large diffusion, even though these are not the best-performing [29,30,31,32,33].…”

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“…Several recent projects encompass the realization of prototypes of MEMS-based (mainly accelerometers and gyroscopes) monitoring station specifically designed for SHM: they are based on the measure of the structural vibration, from which structural health and post-event (e.g., earthquake) damage can be diagnosed [22,23,61,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99]. Other studies also investigated the possibility to use the MEMS accelerometers integrated within the smartphones to develop citizen-engaging networks for SHM, like the ones created for earthquake observation and EEW [30,62,100,101].…”

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A Review of the Capacitive MEMS for Seismology

D’Alessandro

Scudero

Vitale

2019

Sensors

104

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MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) sensors enable a vast range of applications: among others, the use of MEMS accelerometers for seismology related applications has been emerging considerably in the last decade. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of the capacitive MEMS accelerometers: from the physical functioning principles, to the details of the technical precautions, and to the manufacturing procedures. We introduce the applications within seismology and earth sciences related disciplines, namely: earthquake observation and seismological studies, seismic surveying and imaging, structural health monitoring of buildings. Moreover, we describe how the use of the miniaturized technologies is revolutionizing these fields and we present some cutting edge applications that, in the very last years, are taking advantage from the use of MEMS sensors, such as rotational seismology and gravity measurements. In a ten-year outlook, the capability of MEMS sensors will certainly improve through the optimization of existing technologies, the development of new materials, and the implementation of innovative production processes. In particular, the next generation of MEMS seismometers could be capable of reaching a noise floor under the lower seismic noise (few tenths of ng/ H z ) and expanding the bandwidth towards lower frequencies (∼0.01 Hz).

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