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  • Structural Health Monitoring

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  • Low-cost accelerometers are crucial for affordable Structural Health Monitoring (SHM).
  • Existing Arduino/Raspberry Pi accelerometers suffer from high noise, low sampling rates, and synchronization issues.
  • There's a need for improved low-cost sensors for dynamic analysis of structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a new low-cost triaxial accelerometer (LARA) for SHM.
  • To overcome the drawbacks of existing low-cost accelerometers.
  • To validate LARA's performance in experimental eigenfrequency analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a novel low-cost triaxial accelerometer based on Arduino technology (LARA).
  • Laboratory testing to determine Noise Density (ND) and sampling frequency.
  • Application of LARA to the eigenfrequency analysis of a short-span footbridge.

Main Results:

  • LARA achieves a Noise Density (ND) of 51 µg/√Hz.
  • LARA operates at a sampling frequency of 333 Hz.
  • Eigenfrequency analysis results from LARA correlate well with a commercial high-precision sensor.

Conclusions:

  • The developed LARA accelerometer effectively addresses limitations of current low-cost SHM sensors.
  • LARA provides a viable, affordable solution for structural dynamic analysis, including eigenfrequency identification.
  • This technology enables broader application of SHM to various structures.