Practical Implementation of Structural Health Monitoring of a Residential Building

Abstract: Residential buildings need structural health monitoring to remain healthy and durable. This study focuses on an alternative strategy for SHM relying only on visual inspection, material analysis, and freshly up-to-date constraints coming from aging, environment, and design constraints, without advanced sensor technology. Some of the major types are periodic clothing inspection, non-destructive testing (NDT), etc. The conclusion is that systematic SHM with accompanying manual inspection and computational tools to ensure structural integrity is needed. The approach is validated through case studies of residential buildings to demonstrate its applicability to resource-constrained settings. The results suggest that traditional approaches are not perfect for real-time monitoring but offer essential information on maintenance and mitigation over time. This paper attempts to argue for low-cost, non-sensor-based SHM methods emerge that offer a possible adjunct, long-term sustainable path toward iteratively preserving sufficient safety and resilience of the massive housing stock in the world at large, especially in settings where sophistication in technology is not affordable.