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STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING OF DAMS AND RESERVOIR STORAGE
With extensive experience across multiple industries, MS Systems is a Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) leader. Our expert team approaches each dam as a unique system, and will work with you to establish a successful dam-monitoring program to suit the specific needs of your structure. Our objective is to provide actionable information, through MS Barracuda’s SHM system, to ensure the longevity and safety of the dam as well as optimizing its operational management. MS Systems fiber-optic sensing systems, deployed in combination with a distributed fiber-optic sensing cable, FBG and MEMS technology, provides precise, real-time information on infrastructure changes.
Through successfully implementing monitoring systems across the world, we have the experience and expertise to tackle dam-monitoring projects both big and small. We’d be happy to discuss your objectives with you and share how we can help set up a successful monitoring system for your dam infrastructure.
MS Barracuda’s Distributed Structural Health Monitoring (DSHM) approach provides our customers with a complete solution, utilizing robust and highly-sensitive sensors, such as: MEMS, fiber optics, etc.
Monitor infrastructure degradation and receive warning notifications to perform preventative maintenance and ensure safety to the surrounding region
Actively monitor the dam’s elements to accurately assess the current condition of the structure and establish a maintenance plan to perform repairs as needed.
Assure that the performance of your new or existing dam meets both design and code specifications.
Gain increased knowledge and insight about the materials and environmental impacts influencing your system.
Get an immediate status update about the dam’s health, including possible damage and failures, following adverse events.
THE BENEFITS
MS Barracuda offers our customers a dam monitoring system that provides instant information to quickly and precisely determine problems as they arise, helping them make an informed decision.
METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Our philosophy is simple: the sensing system needs to match the reality of its environment. Given that a point in space has six degrees of freedom (DOF), our solution has been to match this complexity with an integrated combination of sensors that can be deployed to suit each customer’s unique needs.
•4DOF Accelerometers
•Inertial modules 6-12 DOF
•1D, 2D Strain gauges
•2D-Displacement sensors and Extensometers
•Humidity sensors
•Weather station
•Piezometers, total ground pressure sensors
•FBG and Distributed Fiber Optics
WHAT MONITORING APPROACH IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
The MS Barracuda’s Structural Health Monitoring system can be deployed to effectively address both continuous monitoring and portable testing needs.Customers seeking a dynamic system to perform diagnostics on the current health of a structure will achieve their goals with the MS Barracuda system.
For customers looking to collect data and provide ongoing information on the behavior and health of their structure, the MS Barracuda SHM platform is ideally suited for long-term monitoring needs.
INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING
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