摘要 |
An apparatus and method for testing the structural joints in steel buildings is described. The invention provides electromechanical test units (30) fixed at the joints (20) of a building (5) and permanently wired (40) to an ultrasonic test monitor (90). Such a monitor may be one of many that are in communication with, a central monitor and test management computer (100) so as to accomplish wide spread testing of many buildings immediately after an earthquake by remote access.
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