EXPO '02, Piazza Pinocchio: monitoring visitor live loads

Marco Cerulli; Daniele Posenato; Daniele Inaudi; Branko Glisic; Samuel Vurpillot

doi:10.1117/12.482764

18 August 2003 EXPO '02, Piazza Pinocchio: monitoring visitor live loads

Marco Cerulli, Daniele Posenato, Daniele Inaudi, Branko Glisic, Samuel Vurpillot

Proceedings Volume 5057, Smart Structures and Materials 2003: Smart Systems and Nondestructive Evaluation for Civil Infrastructures; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.482764
Event: Smart Structures and Materials, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Once every generation, Switzerland treats itself to a National Exhibition commissioned by the Swiss Confederation. Expo 02 was spread out in five "Arteplage" over a whole region: the land of the three lakes, on the shores of the lakes of Biel, Murten and Neuchatel, which are located in the northwest of Switzerland. Each "Arteplage" relates to a theme, which is reflected in its architectures and exhibitions. The "Arteplage" of Neuchatel was related to "Nature and Artificiality;" A big steel-wood whale eating a village represents the fairy tale named "Pinocchio" from the Italian writer Collodi. The "Piazza Pinocchio" was built together with other exposition buildings on one large artificial peninsula. The belly of the whale holds the exposition dedicated to robotic and artificial intelligence, while the rest of the village was developed on two floors with steel piles/beams and wood walls and floors. A fiber optic sensor system was commissioned to monitor the visitor's loads over the whole "Piazza Pinocchio." The main requirements were: real-time computer-screen figure-form results of the live loads during 18 hours a day, automatic thermal-induced strain compensation, real-time warnings and pre-warnings for each single pile, automatic phone call advises when reaching warning thresholds and remote monitoring for complete management of the monitoring sytem. The SOFO system based on low coherence fiber optic deformation sensors was selected to carry out the requirements. The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the project, the installation solution, the results, and data analysis of the installed monitoring system.

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Marco Cerulli, Daniele Posenato, Daniele Inaudi, Branko Glisic, and Samuel Vurpillot "EXPO '02, Piazza Pinocchio: monitoring visitor live loads", Proc. SPIE 5057, Smart Structures and Materials 2003: Smart Systems and Nondestructive Evaluation for Civil Infrastructures, (18 August 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.482764

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