Civionics
Civionics is the combination of civil engineering with electronics engineering, in a manner similar to avionics (aviation and electronics) and mechatronics (mechanical engineering and electronics). An emerging discipline, the main application area of civionics is currently the use of electronics for structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil structures, particularly photonics (Fiber Optic Bragg Grating).
In SHM, Civionics will provide engineers with feedback necessary to aid in optimizing design techniques and understanding infrastructure performance, behaviour and state of condition. The successful integration of intelligent sensing of innovative structures will allow civil structural engineers to expand the design envelope by taking risks to introduce new design concepts, materials and innovation in civil engineering.
Civionic engineering applications include integrating science and technology from both new and traditional disciplines:
- Civil engineering,
- Structural engineering,
- Structural health monitoring,
- Deformation monitoring,
- Automatic Deformation Monitoring System,
- Electronics,
- Electronics Engineering,
- Metrology,
- Telemetry,
- Remote sensing,
- Wireless sensor network,
- Data acquisition,
- Signal processing,
- Embedded system,
- Fiber Bragg grating,
- Accelerometer,
- Transducer,
- Tensometer
Papers and examples of civionics and civionic systems
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- Jerome P. Lynch and Kenneth J. Loh, A Summary Review of Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring
- Sensors plugging into structural integrity p.10
- Structural Monitoring using Wireless Sensors and Controller Area Network
- SAMCO Teaching Materials 1
- SAMCO Teaching Materials 2
- SAMCO Teaching Materials 3
- 2005
- Other
- Integration of Sensing in Civil Structures: Development of the New Discipline of CIVIONICS
- Optical Sensors And Fibre Bragg Gratings
- Strain Measurements with Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors
- Structural Health Monitoring of a Steel Railway Bridge using Optical Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors and Numerical Simulation
- Review of Fiber Optic Accelerometers
- Utilization of Fiber Optic Bragg Grating Sensing Systems for Health Monitoring in Railway Applications
External links
- SHM Glossary: Civionics
- ISIS Civionics Manual
- ISIS - A World Leader in Structural Health Monitoring
- ISHMII - International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure
- Chad Klowak, Getting Bridges to Talk
- Graz University of Technology, Civionics Course
- NCE Annual Report 2005-2006
- Research in the School of Engineering, University of Western Sydney - Civionics Research Node
- Detec Systems
- Micron Optics, Atlanta, GA
- Micron Optics: Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor
- Micron Optics: Optical Sensing Interrogator
- Micron Optics: Sensing News & Events
- Micron Optics: Sensing
- Furukawa Electric: Sensor Fibers
- FiberSensing, S.A., Portugal