Monitoring-based Reliability Assessment of a Steel Arch Bridge

The paper presents the author’s approach to reliability assessment of a structure based on the use of measurement data derived from the structural health monitoring system. The scope of the applied methodology embraces two main parts: the measurement part and the analytical-computational part. The measurement part includes collecting data derived from the monitoring system and creating a database which is the starting point for the next stages. The main area of the work involves probabilistic modeling of the static effects, resulting from the live loads and thermal actions, on the structure, based on the strain measurements. The reliability analyses of the structure conducted for the selected components of the bridge were preceded by defining the limit conditions. The results obtained from the reliability analysis are presented and discussed in the paper.