Sustainable structural health monitoring using e-waste and recycled materials

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2022-09
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Peralta Abadia, Patricia  orcid-logo
Smarsly, Kay 
Institut
Digitales und autonomes Bauen B-1  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/14404
Citation
Eighth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2022)
Contribution to Conference
Eighth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2022)  
Publisher Link
https://smarsly.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/smarsly2022g.pdf
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85145547903
With the apparent effects of climate change, sustainability has come to the forefront in civil engineering, aiming for reliable systems and structures of low environmental impact. However, the market for electronic devices is growing rapidly, generating a non-negligible amount of electronic waste (e-waste). Components in e-waste, such as sensors from disposed electronic devices, may be recycled and reused in structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. In this paper, the design and implementation of a sustainable wireless SHM system composed of e-waste and recycled materials is presented. The sustainable SHM system is validated in field tests on a pedestrian bridge using a conventional wireless SHM system as benchmark. As a result, it is demonstrated that e-waste components and recycled materials are viable alternatives to implement sustainable SHM systems. With sustainable SHM systems, a contribution to minimize the environmental impact of the devices may be achieved.