Field Qualification of Inexpensive Wireless Systems to Monitor Micrometer Crack Response for Structural Health Monitoring

This paper describes the details of installation and operation of a commercially available wireless system to measure response of interior cosmetic cracks in a residential structure over a period of a year. Wireless data loggers managed the response of low-power-draw potentiometers that measured micrometer changes in crack width. Systems like those studied herein are useful to describe the performance of any component of a constructed facility...