Emerging sensing technologies for smart geotechnical structures

Professor Kenichi Soga

The design, construction, maintenance and upgrading of geotechnical structures requires fresh thinking to minimize use of materials, energy and labor but to keep its resiliency against natural hazards. This can only be achieved by understanding the actual performance of the structure, both during its construction and throughout its design life. Recent advances in sensor systems offer intriguing possibilities to radically alter the methods of condition assessment and rich data obtained from such systems can act as a catalyst for new design, construction, operation and maintenance processes. This talk will introduce distributed fiber optic sensing system as an example of this trend. The value of such data to realize performance based design will be discussed using several case studies.

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