Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) researchers have identified Augmented Reality (AR) as a new technology that can assist inspections. Post-seismic structural inspections are conducted to evaluate the safety level of the damaged structures. Quantification of nearby structural changes over short-term and long-term periods can provide building inspectors with information to improve their safety. This paper proposes a Time Machine Measure (TMM) application based on an Augmented Reality (AR) Head-Mounted-Device (HMD) platform. The primary function of TMM is to restore the saved meshes of a past environment and overlay them onto the real environment so that inspectors can intuitively measure dynamic structural deformation and other environmental movements. The proposed TMM application was verified by demo experiments simulating a real inspection environment.
Key Words
augmented reality; deformation measurement; inspection; structural health monitoring; virtual images
Address
(1) Jiaqi Xu, John-Wesley Hanson, Fernando Moreu:
Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA;
(2) Elijah Wyckoff:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA;
(3) Derek Doyle:
Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
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