Title

Structural Health Monitoring For Life Cycle Management Of Bridges

Abstract

The infrastructure, more specifically bridges, in the US is aging. Visual bridge inspections with limited non-destructive evaluation and simplified load rating are the main data generation program for decision making. The shortcomings of this program for providing objective data are well established. As a result, application of new technologies and approaches has become a major need. Bridge health monitoring (BHM) offers promise in better understanding the actual condition of the structures for life cycle management of bridges. BHM can be defined as continuously or intermittently monitoring of the structural systems/components/elements to track the condition and to determine damage. With this, it is expected to develop condition-based maintenance strategies, prioritize maintenance applications for better use of funds and mitigate unexpected structural problems. However, there are major research needs in BHM before it becomes a standard practice by infrastructure owners. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effective use of information technologies to facilitate the use of data by irrfrastructure users. This effort is expected to serve integration of bridge management and bridge health monitoring system applications. Together, these two systems will help infrastructure owners to make better decisions for the management of an entire fleet of bridges. In this paper, the writers are presenting an overview of their recent studies on the movable bridges within the state of Florida. © 2008 Taylor & Francis Group, London.

Publication Date

12-1-2008

Publication Title

Life-Cycle Civil Engineering - Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE '08

Number of Pages

613-618

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

79952144867 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79952144867

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