Conference proceeding
Health monitoring of the Commodore Barry Bridge
SPIE's 7th International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials and SPIE's 5th International Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring of Aging Infrastructure; Newport Beach, CA; USA; 5-9 Mar. 2000
05 Mar 2000
Abstract
The Drexel Intelligent Infrastructure and Transportation Safety Institute, working in partnership with the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA), has been investigating the application of various health monitoring techniques to long span bridges. Specifically, the researchers efforts have focused on the Commodore Barry Bridge, a major cantilevered through truss bridge owned by the DRPA. Health monitoring, in the case of civil infrastructure systems, may be considered as measuring and tracking the operating and loading environment of a structure and corresponding structural responses in order to detect and evaluate operational anomalies and deterioration or damage that may impact service or safety reliability. This paper describes the development and implementation of the health monitoring system that has been installed on the Commodore Barry Bridge. Issues that should be considered when conducting health monitoring of long span bridges are also discussed. The health monitoring system takes advantage of in excess of 100 data channels to continuously track the loading environment and numerous structural responses of the bridge. The major attributes of the health monitoring system for this bridge, many of which are applicable for use on other long span bridges, are also presented and described.
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- Title
- Health monitoring of the Commodore Barry Bridge
- Creators
- K GrimmelsmanR BarrishA Aktan
- Publication Details
- SPIE's 7th International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials and SPIE's 5th International Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring of Aging Infrastructure; Newport Beach, CA; USA; 5-9 Mar. 2000
- Conference
- SPIE's 7th International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials and SPIE's 5th International Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring of Aging Infrastructure, 7th (Newport Beach, California, United States, 05 Mar 2000 - 09 Mar 2000)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]; College of Engineering
- Identifiers
- 991020705344004721