Structural Monitoring

Dynamic Testing

Dynamic Testing

Interest in the dynamic performance of civil engineering structures has increased significantly over the last few decades, as asset owners carry out dynamic investigations to accurately characterise  inherent structural dynamic properties  to better understand their response to real-world loading. The dynamic testing capabilities of Strainstall are extensive, and include high speed, multi-channel data collection. Tasks encompass fatigue life analysis and estimation of prototype vehicles, dynamic load response testing of bridges, structural health monitoring, high-speed stress and vibration testing of aero engines. Our dynamic testing experience is backed up by many years of working around the world in the construction, railway, offshore, marine, aerospace and manufacturing industries, providing us with very different and varying challenges to produce the right data and the right answers.

Benefits of Dynamic Testing

• Determines whether performance falls with specified criteria
• Detects signs of damage or deterioration
• Can be used for research/testing to understand better the dynamic properties,
  leading to improved future design
• Can be used to trouble shoot existing structures that have proven to be
  problematic