Diseño de un sistema experimental de monitoreo remoto de salud estructural para puentes fabricados en Guadua

Abstract

Bamboo is a natural material that is currently repositioning as a suitable and constitutive material in civil engineering for various types of structures and civil constructions. Particularly, the bamboo of the Guadua angustifolia Kunth species possesses physical properties that make it comparable with high-tech fibers, with metals such as steel and stands out most aspects of wood. However, this material estimates disadvantages with respect to its commercial use due, in part, to the lack of experimentation and technical validation around its architectural use. Thanks to nascent problems that arise in the structures of the bridges made with bamboo, added to the current technological advance and the Colombian geopolitical context, this project proposes the design of an experimental system that validates, from an unprecedented perspective, the convergence between the Structural Health Monitoring with the Internet of Things technology. In the designed system, the monitoring of the main variables that affect the stability and structural integrity of bridges is developed using computational algorithms in the context of artificial intelligence. With the results obtained in this work is expected to encourage the extensive use of bamboo as a material for the construction of pedestrian bridges.