The words geotechnical monitoring instruments aren’t ones that you hear very often. However, these three words are very important for everyone’s safety. Below we are going to look at what geotechnical monitoring instruments do and what makes them so important.
During Construction
- For verifying a hypothesis and design assumption
- For monitoring safety while construction is going on
- For measuring parameters changing during construction
- For ensuring the construction’s interface with the adjacent foundation and structures is sound.
- For certifying the new construction’s performance
After Construction’s Completed
- Monitoring to ensure safety while the structure’s used.
- Evaluating how the structure’s working on things such as water, strain, stress, deflection, inclination, pressure and more.
- Comparing the data observed with the assumption of the design
For Research
- Determining and evaluating design parameters
- For testing new construction techniques and materials
Safety Benefits of Geotechnical Monitoring Instruments
- Can provide you with early warnings if something’s going to fail. This gives you time to safely evacuate the area and implement some remedial action.
- Helps keep the adjacent structures safe
- Requires the retrieval of data, as well as its processing and presentation to be fast, so that prompt decisions can be made.
If you have ever been in a tunnel or another structure, you should be happy that geotechnical monitoring instruments were used. They helped ensure your safety while going through the tunnel and that the tunnel will be there for many years to come, to allow people ot pass through safely and get to where they are going.
