A Wireless Monitoring System for Cracks on the Surface of Reactor Containment Buildings.
Structural health monitoring with wireless sensor networks has been increasingly popular in recent years because of the convenience. In this paper, a real-time monitoring system for cracks on the surface of reactor containment buildings is presented. Customized wireless sensor networks platforms are designed and implemented with sensors especially for crack monitoring, which include crackmeters and temperature detectors. Software protocols like route discovery, time synchronization and data transfer are developed to satisfy the requirements of the monitoring system and stay simple at the same time. Simulation tests have been made to evaluate the performance of the system before full scale deployment. The real-life deployment of the crack monitoring system is carried out on the surface of reactor containment building in Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station during the in-service pressure test with 30 wireless sensor nodes.
School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China. tinyos@whu.edu.cn.
Jianguo
J
Zhou
School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China. ymxu@sgg.whu.edu.cn.|Key Laboratory of Precise Engineering and Industry Surveying, National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, Wuhan 430079, China. ymxu@sgg.whu.edu.cn.
Yaming
Y
Xu
School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China. tzhang@sgg.whu.edu.cn.|Key Laboratory of Precise Engineering and Industry Surveying, National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, Wuhan 430079, China. tzhang@sgg.whu.edu.cn.
Tao
T
Zhang
containment crack monitoring; real-life deployment; structural health monitoring; wireless sensor networks