PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICES AS A TOOL IN STRUCTURE'S DAMAGE DETECTION APPLICATIONS

Programmable logic devices is one of the most dynamically developing fields of technology today. It is widely used in many kinds of signal acquisition as well as data processing systems mainly because of it's large flexibility and contin­uously growing abilities. It gives a designer a powerful tool, which allows for the creation of almost any kind of logic topology and any kind of data processing system, which additionally may be freely reprogrammable without any phys­ical changes in the platform device. This paper briefly describes programmable devices technology contribution in the development of various SHM (System Health Monitoring) systems. The SHM systems mentioned in this paper have already been designed, built and successfully tested on real structures.