| dc.description.abstract | In recent times, there is increasingly more focus on the environment. Structural Health Monitoring is about maintaining and extending the lifetime and safety of structures. This is a vital field of work. It is becoming more and more important to be efficient in the use of our planets resources. We do not have any resources to waste, and therefore we must maintain our structures, and extend their life for as long as safely possible. The structures must be able to maintain their safety at all times, and therefore, the field of Structural Health Monitoring is a vital field for a more environmentally friendly future for mankind. Instead of letting structures fall into decay, until they are demolished and build up again from scratch, we can monitor the structures during their lifetime, and discover damages real-time. This will not only enable us to have better control over our structures safety and properly maintain them, but in the long run, this will also save costs for our society.
This work of this thesis has mainly been about literature review about the field of Structural Health Monitoring, and fatigue, as well as fatigue damage model. An experimental program was made, and a fatigue test was performed.
The goal of this thesis has been to develop a better understanding about the field of Structural Health Monitoring and a better understanding about fatigue. By performing a fatigue test, the goal was to acquire a better understanding about fatigue behavior under two-level block loading. It is also important to gain a better understanding about linear and nonlinear fatigue, which is discussed in Chapter 3 of this thesis. | |
