Most of the buildings with existing equipment pose major problems in terms of robustness. Since our country is under earthquake hazard, structural health analysis is required for reasons such as the stability of buildings, safety of life and property, etc. A healthy building is all about the efficiency of the building and being a risk-free structure. A healthy building is a building that enables people using the building to work at the highest efficiency. The purpose of the building is to ensure that the people working in the building can work with the highest efficiency. However, the maintenance and repair of the building falls to the people who live in it or use the building for any reason.
Turkey is a country in the earthquake zone, even if we know the existence of earthquakes in our country, unfortunately we are not very conscious. Unfortunately, earthquakes cannot be prevented, but it is in our hands to minimize the damages on a structure. It is possible to control these damages with a number of methods. These controls should be determined by performing a structural health analysis. But before that, in order to make a structural health analysis of a building, structural health monitoring of that building should be done. So, how is building health monitoring done? Building health monitoring is done as follows. Accelerometers that can detect small vibrations and are sensitive according to the building class are installed at the critical points of the structures we want to perform structural health analysis, then the data with these vibration movements are collected and transmitted to an observation machine. With the help of various graphs, the damaged areas in the graph, critical areas, etc. and the frequency of the structure are determined. Based on these frequency values, structural analysis of the structure we have is performed with various software. However, what are the benefits of the structural health analysis we have done?
Benefits of Building Health Analysis
In order to determine the remaining life of the structure before earthquakes occur in the existing structure and, in fact, the aim of civil engineers is to ensure that the structure can be reusable in the face of external loads based on the behavior of that structure under earthquake when designing a structure. Therefore, our aim in structural health analysis is to repair and strengthen the damaged structures or structures that are expected to collapse after the earthquake and to minimize the loss of life. The negative aspect of building health determination is the problems arising from the lack of an expert technical team in this regard. As Oftek Construction, we are always at your side with our expert team staff. As a result, although the building health analysis resulting from the building health detection is not considered necessary, it will definitely increase its importance in the future.