Experimental study of deformations and vibrations of beams using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Efstathios Polydorou
(Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK)
Des Robinson (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK) Su Taylor (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK) Patrick McGetrick (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Towards a Resilient Built Environment Risk and Asset Management, Guimarães, Portugal, 27-29 March 2019 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Guimarães 2019 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 690-696 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 7 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/guimaraes.2019.0690 | ||||
| Abstract: |
This paper reports a series of experimental tests to assess the effectiveness of UAV technology for measuring deformation and vibration characteristics of beam members. A commercially available multi-rotor UAV is employed in conjunction with point-tracking techniques to measure static deformations of simply supported beams. The investigations are further extended to vibration measurements of cantilever beams to explore the feasibility of the UAV technology for measuring the natural frequencies. The results from both tests are compared with displacement sensors as well as stationary static and high-speed cameras. This study provides a good example of using UAV technology as a flying deformation monitoring platform in structural health monitoring. |
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| Keywords: |
vibrations bridge monitoring image analysis Unmanned aerial vehicles deformation monitoring
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