Wolf Rock Lighthouse Long-Term Monitoring
ORCID
- Alison Raby: 0000-0002-8959-0080
Abstract
Wolf Rock Lighthouse is a Victorian era masonry structure located in an extreme environment facing the fiercest Atlantic storms off the southwest coast of England whose dynamic behaviour has been studied since 2016. Initially, a modal test was used to determine modal parameters; then, in 2017, a monitoring system was installed that has operated intermittently providing response data for a number of characteristic loading events. These events have included wave loads due to storms, a small UK earthquake, helicopters landing on the helideck, and the grounding of a ship on the reef. This is believed to be the most extensive experimental campaign on any structure of this type. This paper briefly describes a unique project involving the characterisation and measurement of dynamic behaviour due to different forms of dynamic loading.
Publication Date
2024-04-22
Publication Title
Infrastructures
Volume
9
Issue
4
Keywords
condition assessment, forced vibration, lighthouse, operational modal analysis, system identification
Recommended Citation
Brownjohn, J., Raby, A., Bassitt, J., Antonini, A., Zhu, Z., & Dobson, P. (2024) 'Wolf Rock Lighthouse Long-Term Monitoring', Infrastructures, 9(4). Available at: 10.3390/infrastructures9040077
