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Wireless Antenna Sensors For Boiler Condition Monitoring, Franck Tchafa
Wireless Antenna Sensors For Boiler Condition Monitoring, Franck Tchafa
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a vital technology that implements real-time condition monitoring or damage detection mechanisms for the safety assurance of structural systems such as power stations, aircrafts, bridges, dams, buildings, large machinery, and more. Without proper and timely maintenance, mechanical systems are prone to failures since they experience detrimental factors such as harsh environments, excessive loads, and vibrations. Several sensing technologies exist for SHM applications. Patch antennas are among the list of these technologies, and they are an attractive choice due to their compact size, light weight, ease of manufacturing, and low fabrication cost. Patch antennas have been …
Wireless Sensors For Health Monitoring Of Marine Structures And Machinery, Francisco David Rojas Calvente
Wireless Sensors For Health Monitoring Of Marine Structures And Machinery, Francisco David Rojas Calvente
PhDs
Remote structural and machinery health monitoring (SMHM) of marine structures such as ships, oil and gas rigs, freight container terminals, and marine energy platforms can ensure their reliability. However, the wired sensors currently used in these applications are difficult and expensive to install and maintain. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) can potentially replace them but there are significant capability gaps that currently prevent their long-term deployment in the harsh marine environment and the structurally-complex, compartmentalised, all-metal scenarios with high volume occupancy of piping, ducting and operational machinery represented by marine structures. These gaps are in sensing, processing and communication hardware and …