Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering
>> 2012,
Volume 6,
Issue 3
doi:
10.1007/s11709-012-0161-y
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Development of an integrated structural health monitoring system for bridge structures in operational conditions
1. School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia; 2. School of Civil and Resource Engineering, University of Western Australia, Crawley,WA 6009, Australia
Available online: 2012-09-05
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This paper presents an overview of development of an integrated structural health monitoring system. The integrated system includes vibration and guided-wave based structural health monitoring. It integrates the real-time heterogeneous sensor data acquiring system, data analysis and interpretation, physical-based numerical simulation of complex structural system under operational conditions and structural evaluation. The study is mainly focused on developing: integrated sensor technology, integrated structural damage identification with operational loads monitoring, and integrated structural evaluation with results from system identification. Numerical simulation and its implementation in laboratory show that the system is effective and reliable to detect local damage and global conditions of bridge structures.