Structural Health Monitoring as a Tool toward More Resilient Societies

Continuous safe and low-cost operation of structures extensively depends on their proper maintenance and management. To apply optimal management strategies for the existing structures, accurate assessment of their present and future safety is important and crucial. Hence, monitoring of structures can be considered a necessary condition for providing the planned level of their safe and efficient functioning under expected hazardous effects during their serviceability. Pre-existing analogue 3D seismic network in Ohrid, N. Macedonia originally is installed in the 80s with support from USGS. By upgrading and modernization, real earthquake records will be obtained for investigation of local site effect and dynamic response of buildings. It is in the central urban part of the city of Ohrid and with the recent activities, real-time recording and health monitoring processes are enabled at the location. In this way, it will be possible to timely recognize and identify damages to the structure as well as define its present state and conditions for its further use.