Jessica A Myers

US Patent:

20180196014, Jul 12, 2018

Filed:

Jan 12, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/404839

Inventors:

- Marshalltown IA, US
Jessica Dawn Myers - Arvada CO, US

International Classification:

G01N 29/44
G01N 29/46
G01N 29/12

Abstract:

Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to monitor a condition of a structure are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an operational collection engine to measure first operational acceleration information from a first sensor installed at a first location and second operational acceleration information from a second sensor installed at a second location on a structure, a first vibration model response calculator to calculate a first vibration model response by entering the measured first and second operational acceleration information into a first vibration model, a second vibration model response calculator to calculate a second vibration model response by entering a calculated number of operational cycles into a second vibration model, a deviation threshold analyzer to determine a difference between the first vibration model response and the second vibration model response and an alert generator to generate an alert to identify a condition of the structure based on the difference between the first vibration model response and the second vibration model response.