Measuring heavy traffic with WIM-ROAD and WIM-BRIDGE systems in an urban environment
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Maarten Soudijn
(Engineering Office - municipality Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Sebastiaan van Rossum (Engineering Office - municipality Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Ane de Boer (Engineering Office - municipality Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs, Ghent, Belgium, 22-24 September 2021 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Ghent 2021 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 331-340 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 10 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/ghent.2021.0331 | ||||
| Abstract: |
In this paper we present weight measurements of urban heavy traffic comparing two different Weigh In Motion (WIM) systems. One is a WIM-ROAD system using Lineas quartz pressure sensors in the road surface. The other is a WIM-BRIDGE system using optical fibre-based strain sensors which are applied under the bridge to the bottom fibre of a single span of the bridge deck. We have designed our tests to determine which system is most suited to Amsterdam. We put special focus on the accuracy that each system can achieve and have set up an extensive calibration program to determine this. Our ultimate goal is to draw up a realistic traffic load model for Amsterdam. This model would lead to a recommendation that can be used to re- examine the structural safety of existing historic bridges and quay walls, in addition to the current traffic load recommendations. |
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| Keywords: |
bridges vehicle load axle load wheel load pressure sensor heavy traffic weigh in motion strain sensor weight data
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| Copyright: | © 2021 International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) | ||||
| License: | This creative work is copyrighted material and may not be used without explicit approval by the author and/or copyright owner. |
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