Damage prognosis of China ancient wooden buildings based on structural health monitoring system

To protect the China ancient cultural heritage and ancient buildings, this paper proposed an ultimate life prediction method that is suitable for the Chinese ancient wooden buildings. An ancient building installed a structural health monitoring (SHM) system was an example of practical engineering to validate the proposed method. In the practical engineering, the SHM system was briefly introduced firstly, afterwards a finite element model was developed and updated by the monitoring data, and the life of the building was analyzed and predicted. The results show that the proposed damage prognosis and life prediction method is applicable and efficient.