Health monitoring and field-testing of high-rise buildings: A review

Health monitoring and field-testing have been two emerging technologies for investigating the real-world behaviors of high-rise buildings. The five primary motivations of the two monitoring-oriented methods are first presented. The four fundamental steps of the data-driven process are followingly discussed. Then, the state-of-the-art structural health monitoring systems on four representative super-tall buildings and the relevant data analysis methodologies are reviewed, with the summary of the corresponding observations from data interpretation. The recent practice on seismic monitoring and data-informed structural evaluation are discussed. Especially, the tradeoff problem on parametric identification for data-driven modeling of real-life structures is presented. Finally, the future of health monitoring and field-testing of high-rise buildings is presented with several potential issues highlighted.