Date of Award
4-2016
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Civil Engineering (MSCE)
Department
Civil Engineering
First Advisor
Shirley J Dyke
Committee Chair
Shirley J Dyke
Committee Member 1
Arun Prakash
Committee Member 2
Julio Ramirez
Abstract
We live in an age when people desire taller buildings and longer bridges. These increasing demands of more flexible structures challenge civil engineers to ensure structural safety in the state where they are more prone to extreme dynamic loading, such as earthquakes. Extensive wiring required in traditional structural control applications may be expensive and inconvenient, especially for large scale structures. To improve the scalability, wireless sensors offer a promising alternative. However, the presence of time delay and data loss in a wireless sensor network can potentially reduce the performance of the control system. Here an artificial neural network is proposed to improve the performance of a wireless sensor network based control system. The proposed technique is named as Neural Network Wireless Correction Function (NNWCF). By applying this strategy, a wireless structural control can be utilized without experiencing major performance degradation due to the wireless characteristics.
Recommended Citation
Binarandi, Ghazi, "Artificial neural networks for wireless structural control" (2016). Open Access Theses. 748.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_theses/748