Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)- Encardio Rite

Encardio Rite provides advanced monitoring services using geotechnical instruments, ensuring safer structures by providing quantitative data to prevent sudden failures. These services offer economic advantages, design verification, construction control, and early warning capabilities. Strain gauges enable real-time data logging, safeguarding lives and structures, and evaluating natural calamity impacts. Technological advancements in civil engineering and geotechnical engineering have enabled magnificent structures like Burj Khalifa and Gotthard Base Tunnel.

What is Structural Health Monitoring?

Structural health monitoring is crucial for preventing sudden failures and accidents in construction activities. Geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring provide quantitative data on a structure's performance, enabling early detection of problems. Failures can occur due to design errors, geological instability, poor maintenance, and material deterioration. Encardio Rite, a company offering monitoring services and advanced geotechnical instruments, plays a vital role in ensuring the safety and performance of structures.

Importance of Structural health Monitoring (SHM):

Geotechnical monitoring is crucial for economic benefits and public safety, as sudden structural failures can pose a threat to life and property. It provides quantitative performance data to authorities, aiding in site investigation, design verification, construction control, and safety.

1. Site investigation is essential to ensure the strength of the land and the safety of other assets in the vicinity. Structural Health Monitoring Sensors are used to characterize and determine initial site conditions, such as pore pressure, soil permeability, and slope stability.

2. Design verification is crucial to prevent structural failures. Geotechnical instruments and sensors are used to verify design assumptions, and instrumentation data from the initial stage can show the need or provide opportunities to modify design in later stages. For example, data from reinforcement bar strain meters at Teesta Barrage led authorities to revise steel requirements.

3. Construction control is crucial to determine the speed of construction without adverse effects on foundation soil and construction materials. Instruments are installed to monitor the effects of construction, such as monitoring the temperature rise in concrete at Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River.

4. Safety monitoring is essential for early warning of impending failures. Quick retrieval, processing, and presentation of instrument data are necessary for timely analysis and decision-making, allowing for the preparation of an effective action plan for corrective measures.

Encardio Rite has been at the forefront of manufacturing advanced geotechnical and infrastructure health instruments. Our mission has always been to develop, manufacture, and market high-tech instruments while delivering unparalleled services. From bridges to tunnels and dams to mines, our sensing products have been instrumental in ensuring structural safety. Our extensive portfolio includes monitoring over 1000 km of structures worldwide, encompassing Metro tunnels, rail and road tunnels, sewer tunnels, dams, high-rise buildings, historical monuments, and online groundwater wells. Our esteemed clientele features industry stalwarts like Samsung Engineering, Larsen & Toubro, Atkins, Ohla, Strabag, Acciona, and Zublin.

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Encardio Rite is a global leader in manufacturing Geotechnical Instrumentation & Sensors for Structural Health, Bridge, Dam, Tunnel, Pile, and Mine monitoring.