CIVIL STRUCTURE MONITORING

Monitoring is essential component

of successful Road and Railways
y
Construction and Operation
Sisgeo S.r.l. - Masate Mi - Italy

ROAD EMBANKMENT

IPI inclinometers

Optical targets

Piezometers

Profiler
Settlement gauges

Pore Pressure
Piezometer
Drainage horizontal
Vertical
P

Settlement Displacement
Profiler
IPI inclinometers

Settlement gauge
Optical target
A
Pr

Iv

A
Iv Pr

RETAINING WALLS

RETAINING WALL
INSTRUMENTATION

Pore pressure and earth pressure

Piezometer
Total presssure cell

Settlement and displacement

Optical target
IPI Inclinometer
Inclinometer tube
Extensometer
Load cell

INCLINOMETER TUBE EQUIPPED WITH 8 IPI SENSORS FOR

AUTOMATIC MONITORING

PREPARATION OF ELECTRIC LOAD CELLS

BEFORE INSTALLING

Instrumented retaining wall

ROAD STABLITY SURVEY BY INCLINOMETER SYSTEM

TUNNEL MONITORING
Monitoring
M
i i is
i essential
i l component
of successful tunnel operation

Ch k excavation
Check
i method
h d
Survey rock/soil stability
Assure tunnel safety

ROAD TUNNEL ENTRANCE

Anchor load cell

Borehole 3-point
3 point extensometer

TUNNEL MONITORING
Pair of Strain Gauge

P
Pressure
Cell
C ll

Steel Lining Load Cell

Borehole Extensometer
C.C.
C.C.

Typical Monitoring Section

TUNNEL MONITORING

Typical
yp
Monitoring
g Section

3-point borehole
extensometer

Pressure cells
Convergence bolts

TUNNEL MONITORING

Steel Lining
Stress Monitoring

Lower Part of Steel-lining

instrumented with Load Cell

TUNNEL AUTOMATIC MONITORING

ADK-10 Station in the tunnel

Control Room with PC

SURFACE MONITORING
Tunnell construction
T
i
jeopardizes the
b ildi / t t
building/structure
safety
f t

Instrumentation
allows
ll
to
monitor
structures
t t
which
hi h
interfere with
tunnel
construction

SURFACE MONITORING
Building Survey
d i
during
Tunnel Excavation
DSM

Differential Settlement
Monitoring System
installed in Madrid
(Porta del Sol)

Porta del Sol Palace

DSM
level gauge

Optical Target

Biaxial Tilt Meter

DSM Level Gauge

Automatic 33-D monitoring by DSM Level Gauge

Gauge,
Tilt Meter (Clinometer) and Optical Target

DSM SYSTEM - HYDRAULIC SETTLEMENT GAUGE

BRIDGE MONITORING

STRAIN GAUGES INSTALLATION ON A BRIDGE DECK

VIBRATING WIRE STRAIN METERS

EMBEDDED IN CONCRETE

WADI KUF BRIDGE - LYBIA

CU
C.U.

TYPE OF INSTRUMENT

NUMBER

STRAIN GAUGES

STRAIN GAUGES + TERMISTORE

(ON THE BOTH SIDE)

22

CLINOMETERS (MONOAXIAL)

CLINOMETERS (BIAXIAL)

ANCHOR LOAD CELLS

DISPLACEMENT TRASDUCERS

TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE

HUMIDITY PROBE

METEOROLOGICAL STATION
(ANEMOMETER AND WIND
DIRECTION ; RAIN GAUGE ;
RELATIVE HUMIDITY PROBE ;
TEMPERATURE )

TOTAL

42

ID

Measurement of Strains

C.U.

L ft side
Left
id
SG 1,2
12

SG 5,6

SG 9,10

SG 11,12
SG 3,4

SG 7,8

Strain-meters

Strain Meters

Range:
g 0 1 MN
Accuracy: 0.5 % f.s.
Signal output: 4-20 mA

Measurement of Displacements
p

C.U.

Joint-meters

B
Bengazi
i side
id
Joint meter # 1

JOINT METER # 1

ELECTRIC JOINT-METER

BRIDGE MONITORING
3 D Crack/Joint
3-D
Crack/Joint-Meter
Meter Station
Automatic
A
t
ti St
Station
ti ffor 3
3-D
D
Monitoring equipped with three
Electrical JJoint-Meters
Z-axis
Y-axis

Rotations

C.U.

Bengazi side
C2

C3

C4
C1

Tiltmeters

Installation of biaxial
TILTMETER # C1

Sisgeoss Technician during

Sisgeo
ADK--10 System Wiring
ADK

CR-10X
CR
10X Module

24V power
supply module

Network
Interface
12V Battery

32 channels
MuLTIPLEXER

VW Excitation
module
d l

Power supply

16 channels
MULTIPLEXER

SISGEO ADK
ADK--10 COMPONENTS

WADI KUF BRIDGE LYBIA

ADK-10 Data Acquisition System

METEOROLOGICAL STATION WITH

BAROMETER AND WIND GAUGES