Solution: Structural Health Monitoring of Steel Structures

Structural Health Monitoring of steel structures provides continuous insight into the condition and integrity of your assets. For large or hard-to-access assets, SHM reduces manual inspection needs while improving safety, reliability, and maintenance planning through real-time, data-driven condition evaluation.

The challenge

Steel bridges, towers, industrial plants, and offshore assets are aging while operating under load conditions far beyond their original design assumptions. Traditional inspections – periodic, visual, and inherently low-frequency – capture only snapshots of structural condition and may miss progressive deterioration such as fatigue crack initiation, crack growth, and corrosion-driven section loss.

For large, difficult-to-access steel structures the challenge is even greater: reaching critical areas requires rope access, confined-space entry, or shutdowns, driving up cost and limiting inspection frequency. As regulators and asset owners shift toward data-driven integrity management, Structural Health Monitoring has become essential.

Our Solution

Continuous sensor data enables earlier anomaly detection, more accurate condition modelling, and evidence-based maintenance planning: a level of insight that traditional inspections alone can no longer deliver.

Optimising inspection frequency through Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) lets you focus resources where they matter most. Large, difficult-to-access structures benefit significantly from continuous monitoring, reducing the need for costly rope access or shutdowns. SHM is especially valuable for critical areas or known defects such as existing cracks, weld details, or fatigue-prone connections where real-time data provides early indicators of deterioration.

Complementary engineering assessments guide the evaluation of damage mechanisms, load paths, and high-risk locations, ensuring monitoring strategies are aligned with structural behaviour.

Why Choose Us

We offer a comprehensive suite of structural health monitoring technologies focused on early detection of damage as well as the follow-up of critical locations:

• Crack detection systems enable monitoring of your complete asset for damage initiation and growth over time, and can reduce the scope of costly traditional inspections.
• Hot-spot monitoring of critical and high-risk structural areas allows safe operation throughout the asset’s lifecycle.

Our experts deliver ongoing engineering assessment and technical follow-up, complemented by targeted NDT and A-NDT inspections when deeper characterisation is required. Where necessary, we also perform fitness-for-service (FFS) assessments and root-cause failure analysis.

Our technologies include:

• Crack detection sensors based on magnetic flux leakage
• RISE Remote Inspection System based on acoustic emission technology

Get in touch with us and discover how Structural Health Monitoring can protect the integrity of your steel assets.