Method and device for assessing the structural characteristics of installed supporting poles
AssigneeCinetix S.R.L.
InventorsMaurizio Piazza, Gianni Maria Pompermaier, Maria Paola Riggio
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method for automatically assessing structural characteristics of a supporting pole sunk in the ground, including the operational steps of detecting data regarding a pole being assessed, striking at least one blow against said pole, detecting pole oscillations generated by said struck blow(s), analyzing detected oscillations in order to determine at least one significant parameter of the oscillation trend, and comparing said significant parameter(s) with pre-established threshold values in order to obtain a conformity or non-conformity index related to pole characteristics.
Claims20
A method of automatically assessing structural characteristics of a supporting pole sunk in the ground, comprising the following operational steps:
- acquiring data on a pole being assessed (step 100);
- striking at least one blow against said pole (step 500);
- detecting pole oscillations generated by said struck blow(s);
- analyzing the detected pole oscillations to determine at least one significant parameter in the oscillation trend (step 600);
- and
- comparing said significant parameter(s) with pre-established threshold values to obtain a conformity-non-conformity index related to pole characteristics (step 606);
- wherein
- said acquiring step comprises establishing the overall height and diameter of said pole (steps 101,102;
- 110).
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