Applying Prognostics and Health Management to Optimize Safety and Sustainability at the First Adaptive High-Rise Structure

Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) offers the potential to increase the acceptance of adaptive structures and to operate them in an optimal way. With suitable design and proper operation, adaptive high-rise structures enable significant increases in sustainability and service life extensions compared to passive high-rise buildings. The control loop for PHM provides a systematic overview of the contents related to PHM and their sequence. However, a framework is required for application to a complex adaptive system. Such a framework is presented in this paper. The framework is divided into the areas of system analysis and modeling as well as the PHM solution. A systematic approach is used to analyze the system and create the basis for full integration of all functional domains. This is then used in modeling to develop an adapted model structure. Finally, the PHM solution looks at the details of the approaches for diagnosis, prognosis, and health management.