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Vehicle-based Health Monitoring System for Short and Medium Span Bridges

 Vehicle-based Health Monitoring System for Short and Medium Span Bridges
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Presented at IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016, published in , pp. 1840-1849
DOI: 10.2749/stockholm.2016.1845
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In this paper, one practical solution to the problem for condition assessment of short and medium span bridges is discussed. It uses vehicle-based measurements with a public bus as part of a public...
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Author(s): (Aalto University, Espoo, Finland)
(Aalto University, Espoo, Finland)
(KOZO KEIKAKU Eng., Inc. Tokyo, Japan Kouzoubutsu Clinic Ltd. Ube, Japan)
(KOZO KEIKAKU Eng., Inc. Tokyo, Japan Kouzoubutsu Clinic Ltd. Ube, Japan)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016
Published in:
Page(s): 1840-1849 Total no. of pages: 10
Page(s): 1840-1849
Total no. of pages: 10
Year: 2016
DOI: 10.2749/stockholm.2016.1845
Abstract:

In this paper, one practical solution to the problem for condition assessment of short and medium span bridges is discussed. It uses vehicle-based measurements with a public bus as part of a public transit system. The system, named as “bus monitoring system”, is introduced along with safety indices and data analysis methods. It is shown that the bridge vibration response can be extracted from the measured vehicle response, and so called “characteristic deflection” to be calculated. Characteristics deflection is found to be relatively free from the influence of varying parameters like vehicle speed, bus overall weight and roughness of the road surface. It could therefore be used as structural performance indicator of the bridge. The system is operating in Ube-city, Japan, that is dealt as a case study.

Keywords:
condition assessment sensitivity damage detection short and medium span bridge long-term monitoring public bus health monitoring system characteristic deflection