Seismic monitoring of a large dam
Seismic monitoring
The Seismic Early Warning for a large dam
Our instruments were installed in the dam in order to carry out structural monitoring and seismic monitoring of the eight segments that form the dam’s crossbeam. Accelerometers and inclinometers in MEMS technology with very high accuracy, temperature and humidity sensors, and gyroscopic sensors
Every small change in buoyancy, every small acceleration, is continuously monitored and the data collected is sent in real time to the cloud server in order to check for instantaneous failures or drifts that with time can become dangerous.
For 2 consecutive years, the data has been analyzed by the: Polytechnic University of Turin – Department of Structural, Construction and Geotechnical Engineering – SISCON Center – Safety of Infrastructures and Constructionscon, whose scientific profile we used for data analysis and validation.
The Dam was the first “Big Dam” in Italy to undergo such monitoring.