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Instrumentation and Monitoring of Port Facilities: Planning, Funding, Field Applications, and Long-Term Benefits
The widespread application of sensors and instrumentation systems at port facilities has substantially lagged behind that of other sectors of civil infrastructure due to a combination of factors that include; lack of external funding sources for geotechnical and structural instrumentation, difficulties in coordinating the installation with construction schedules, instrument longevity and maintenance concerns in the marine environment, location and access considerations in active terminals, and resources for data acquisition and archiving efforts. Most of these issues have been overcome for buildings, bridges and dams where the application of advanced sensors with real-time data processing and visualization software yield direct benefits to engineering evaluation of system performance under operating loads and extreme natural hazards, maintenance, and life-cycle management. Given the tremendous benefits of performance monitoring progress is being made at ports and marine oil terminals in California where instrumentation has recently been deployed to obtain data on near shore currents, vessel impact and mooring loads, ground and wharf foundation deformations, and the seismic response of waterfront structures. The lessons learned during these recent projects will benefit current planning and installation efforts at other ports. This paper summarizes field applications for instrumentation at ports and related civil infrastructure, and demonstrates the advances made in seismic performance evaluation of port facilities that have been facilitated by field monitoring. This paper supplements the companion paper in these proceedings prepared by the ASCE-TCLEE Ports Lifelines Committee on the monograph Instrumentation for Monitoring the Performance of Port and Coastal Infrastructure. The monograph was prepared to highlight recent experience with instrumentation programs for major port projects in the United States.
Instrumentation and Monitoring of Port Facilities: Planning, Funding, Field Applications, and Long-Term Benefits
The widespread application of sensors and instrumentation systems at port facilities has substantially lagged behind that of other sectors of civil infrastructure due to a combination of factors that include; lack of external funding sources for geotechnical and structural instrumentation, difficulties in coordinating the installation with construction schedules, instrument longevity and maintenance concerns in the marine environment, location and access considerations in active terminals, and resources for data acquisition and archiving efforts. Most of these issues have been overcome for buildings, bridges and dams where the application of advanced sensors with real-time data processing and visualization software yield direct benefits to engineering evaluation of system performance under operating loads and extreme natural hazards, maintenance, and life-cycle management. Given the tremendous benefits of performance monitoring progress is being made at ports and marine oil terminals in California where instrumentation has recently been deployed to obtain data on near shore currents, vessel impact and mooring loads, ground and wharf foundation deformations, and the seismic response of waterfront structures. The lessons learned during these recent projects will benefit current planning and installation efforts at other ports. This paper summarizes field applications for instrumentation at ports and related civil infrastructure, and demonstrates the advances made in seismic performance evaluation of port facilities that have been facilitated by field monitoring. This paper supplements the companion paper in these proceedings prepared by the ASCE-TCLEE Ports Lifelines Committee on the monograph Instrumentation for Monitoring the Performance of Port and Coastal Infrastructure. The monograph was prepared to highlight recent experience with instrumentation programs for major port projects in the United States.
Instrumentation and Monitoring of Port Facilities: Planning, Funding, Field Applications, and Long-Term Benefits
Dickenson, Stephen E. (author)
11th Triennial International Conference on Ports ; 2007 ; San Diego, California, United States
Ports 2007 ; 1-10
2007-03-22
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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