Vehicle Scanning Method for Bridges

Vehicle Scanning Method for Bridges
Author: Yeong-Bin Yang
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119539587

Presents the first ever guide for vehicle scanning of the dynamic properties of bridges Written by the leading author on the subject of vehicle scanning method (VSM) for bridges, this book allows engineers to monitor every bridge of concern on a regular and routine basis, for the purpose of maintenance and damage detection. It includes a review of the existing literature on the topic and presents the basic concept of extracting bridge frequencies from a moving test vehicle fitted with vibration sensors. How road surface roughness affects the vehicle scanning method is considered and a finite element simulation is conducted to demonstrate how surface roughness affects the vehicle response. Case studies and experimental results are also included. Vehicle Scanning Method for Bridges covers an enhanced technique for extracting higher bridge frequencies. It examines the effect of road roughness on extraction of bridge frequencies, and looks at a dual vehicle technique for suppressing the effect of road roughness. A filtering technique for eliminating the effect of road roughness is also presented. In addition, the book covers the identification of bridge mode shapes, contact-point response for modal identification of bridges, and damage detection of bridges—all through the use of a moving test vehicle. The first book on vehicle scanning of the dynamic properties of bridges Written by the leading author on the subject Includes a state-of-the-art review of the existing works on the vehicle scanning method (VSM) Presents the basic concepts for extracting bridge frequencies from a moving test vehicle fitted with vibration sensors Includes case studies and experimental results The first book to fully cover scanning the dynamic properties of bridges with a vehicle, Vehicle Scanning Method for Bridges is an excellent resource for researchers and engineers working in civil engineering, including bridge engineering and structural health monitoring.

Structural Health Monitoring for Suspension Bridges

Structural Health Monitoring for Suspension Bridges
Author: Yang Deng
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2018-12-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811333475

This book presents extensive information on structural health monitoring for suspension bridges. During the past two decades, there have been significant advances in the sensing technologies employed in long-span bridge health monitoring. However, interpretation of the massive monitoring data is still lagging behind. This book establishes a series of measurement interpretation frameworks that focus on bridge site environmental conditions, and global and local responses of suspension bridges. Using the proposed frameworks, it subsequently offers new insights into the structural behaviors of long-span suspension bridges. As a valuable resource for researchers, scientists and engineers in the field of bridge structural health monitoring, it provides essential information, methods, and practical algorithms that can facilitate in-service bridge performance assessments.

Accurate and Scalable Bridge Health Monitoring Using Drive-by Vehicle Vibrations

Accurate and Scalable Bridge Health Monitoring Using Drive-by Vehicle Vibrations
Author: Jingxiao Liu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre:
ISBN:

The objective of this research is to achieve accurate and scalable bridge health monitoring (BHM) by learning, integrating, and generalizing the monitoring models derived from drive-by vehicle vibrations. Early diagnosis of bridge damage through BHM is crucial for preventing more severe damage and collapses that could lead to significant economic and human losses. Conventional BHM approaches require installing sensors directly on bridges, which are expensive, inefficient, and difficult to scale up. To address these limitations, this research uses vehicle vibration data when the vehicle passes over the bridge to infer bridge conditions. This drive-by BHM approach builds on the intuition that the recorded vehicle vibrations carry information about the vehicle-bridge interaction (VBI) and thus can indirectly inform us of the dynamic characteristics of the bridge. Advantages of this approach include the ability for each vehicle to monitor multiple bridges economically and eliminating the need for on-site maintenance of sensors and equipment on bridges. Though the drive-by BHM approach has the above benefits, implementing it in practice presents challenges due to its indirect measurement nature. In particular, this research tackles three key challenges: 1) Complex vehicle-bridge interaction. The VBI system is a complex interaction system, making mathematical modeling difficult. The analysis of vehicle vibration data to extract the desired bridge information is challenging because the data have complex noise conditions as well as many uncertainties involved. 2) Limited temporal information. The drive-by vehicle vibration data contains limited temporal information at each coordinate on the bridge, which consequently restricts the drive-by BHM's capacity to deliver fine-grained spatiotemporal assessments of the bridge's condition. 3) Heterogeneous bridge properties. The damage diagnostic model learned from vehicle vibration data collected from one bridge is hard to generalize to other bridges because bridge properties are heterogeneous. Moreover, the multi-task nature of damage diagnosis, such as detection, localization, and quantification, exacerbates the system heterogeneity issue. To address the complex vehicle-bridge interaction challenge, this research learns the BHM model through non-linear dimensionality reduction based on the insights we gained by formulating the VBI system. Many existing physics-based formulations make assumptions (e.g., ignoring non-linear dynamic terms) to simplify the drive-by BHM problem, which is inaccurate for damage diagnosis in practice. Data-driven approaches are recently introduced, but they use black-box models, which lack physical interpretation and require lots of labeled data for model training. To this end, I first characterize the non-linear relationship between bridge damage and vehicle vibrations through a new VBI formulation. This new formulation provides us with key insights to model the vehicle vibration features in a non-linear way and consider the high-frequency interactions between the bridge and vehicle dynamics. Moreover, analyzing the high-dimensional vehicle vibration response is difficult and computationally expensive because of the curse of dimensionality. Hence, I develop an algorithm to learn the low-dimensional feature embedding, also referred to as manifold, of vehicle vibration data through a non-linear and non-convex dimensionality reduction technique called stacked autoencoders. This approach provides informative features for achieving damage estimation with limited labeled data. To address the limited temporal information challenge, this research integrates multiple sensing modalities to provide complementary information about bridge health. The approach utilizes vibrations collected from both drive-by vehicles and pre-existing telecommunication (telecom) fiber-optic cables running through the bridge. In particular, my approach uses telecom fiber-optic cables as distributed acoustic sensors to continuously collect bridge dynamic strain responses at fixed locations. In addition, drive-by vehicle vibrations capture the input loading information to the bridge with a high spatial resolution. Due to extensively installed telecom fiber cables on bridges, the telecom cable-based approach also does not require on-site sensor installation and maintenance. A physics-informed system identification method is developed to estimate the bridge's natural frequencies, strain and displacement mode shapes using telecom cable responses. This method models strain mode shapes based on parametric mode shape functions derived from theoretical bridge dynamics. Moreover, I am developing a sensor fusion approach that reconstructs the dynamic responses of the bridge by modeling the vehicle-bridge-fiber interaction system that considers the drive-by vehicle and telecommunication fiber vibrations as the system input and output, respectively. To address the heterogeneous bridge properties challenge, this research generalizes the monitoring model for one bridge to monitor other bridges through a hierarchical model transfer approach. This approach learns a new manifold (or feature space) of vehicle vibration data collected from multiple bridges so that the features transferred to such manifold are sensitive to damage and invariant across multiple bridges. Specifically, the feature is modeled through domain adversarial learning that simultaneously maximizes the damage diagnosis performance for the bridge with available labeled data while minimizing the performance of classifying which bridge (including those with and without labeled data) the data came from. Moreover, to learn multiple diagnostic tasks (including damage detection, localization, and quantification) that have distinct learning difficulties, the framework formulates a feature hierarchy that allocates more learning resources to learn tasks that are hard to learn, in order to improve learning performance with limited data. A new generalization risk bound is derived to provide the theoretical foundation and insights for developing the learning algorithm and efficient optimization strategy. This approach allows a multi-task damage diagnosis model developed using labeled data from one bridge to be used for other bridges without requiring training data labels from those bridges. Overall, this research offers a new approach that can achieve accurate and scalable BHM by learning, integrating, and generalizing monitoring models learned from drive-by vehicle vibrations. The approach enables low-cost and efficient diagnosis of bridge damage before it poses a threat to the public, which could avoid the enormous loss of human lives and property.

Highway Vehicle-bridge Coupled Vibrations: Numerical Simulations And Applications

Highway Vehicle-bridge Coupled Vibrations: Numerical Simulations And Applications
Author: Steve C S Cai
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2020-09-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811216436

Vehicle-bridge interaction happens all the time on roadway bridges and this interaction performance carries much useful information. On one hand, while vehicles are traditionally viewed as loads for bridges, they can also be deemed as sensors for bridges' structural response. On the other hand, while bridges are traditionally viewed as carriers for vehicle weight, they can also be deemed as scales that can weigh the vehicle loads. Based on these observations, a broad area of studies based on the vehicle-bridge interaction have been conducted in the authors' research group. Understanding the vehicle and bridge interaction can help develop strategies for bridge condition assessment, bridge design, and bridge maintenance, as well as develop insight for new research needs.This book documents fundamental knowledge, new developments, and state-of-the-art applications related to vehicle-bridge interactions. It thus provides useful information for graduate students and researchers and therefore straddles the gap between theoretical research and practical applications.

Structural Health Monitoring

Structural Health Monitoring
Author: N. Rajic
Publisher: Materials Research Forum LLC
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1644901307

The book presents recent advances regarding the inspection and monitoring of engineering structures; including bridges, buildings, aircraft and space structures, nuclear reactors and defense platforms. Among the techniques covered are UAV photogrammetry, strain monitoring, infrared detection, acoustic emission testing, residual stress measurements, fiber optical sensing, thermographic inspection, vibration analysis, piezoelectric sensing and ultrasonic testing. Keywords: Bridges, Buildings, Aircraft Structures, Space Structures, Nuclear Reactors, Defense Platforms, UAV Photogrammetry, Strain Monitoring, Infrared Detection, Acoustic Emission Testing, Residual Stress Measurements, Fiber Optical Sensing, Thermographic Inspection, Vibration Analysis, Piezoelectric Sensing, Ultrasonic Testing, Impact Damage, Anaerobic Reactor Performance, Geomembranes, Ossointegrated Implants, Fatigue Crack Growth, Accelerometer, Nonlinear Cable Bracing, Timber Utility Poles, Steel Pipes, Loosened Bolts on Pipes, IMU-based Motion Capture, CFRP Composites, Maglev Guideway Girder, Cable-Pylon Anchorage, Deep Learning Techniques.

Structural Health Monitoring of Long-Span Suspension Bridges

Structural Health Monitoring of Long-Span Suspension Bridges
Author: You Lin Xu
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2011-08-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0415597935

Long span suspension bridges cost billions. In recent decades, structural health monitoring systems have been developed to measure the loading environment and responses of these bridges in order to assess serviceability and safety while tracking the symptoms of operational incidents and potential damage. This helps ensure the bridge functions properly during a long service life and guards against catastrophic failure under extreme events. Although these systems have achieved some success, this cutting-edge technology involves many complex topics that present challenges to students, researchers, and engineers alike. Systematically introducing the fundamentals and outlining the advanced technologies for achieving effective long-term monitoring, Structural Health Monitoring of Long-Span Suspension Bridges covers: The design of structural health monitoring systems Finite element modelling and system identification Highway loading monitoring and effects Railway loading monitoring and effects Temperature monitoring and thermal behaviour Wind monitoring and effects Seismic monitoring and effects SHMS-based rating method for long span bridge inspection and maintenance Structural damage detection and test-bed establishment These are applied in a rigorous case study, using more than ten years' worth of data, to the Tsing Ma suspension bridge in Hong Kong to examine their effectiveness in the operational performance of a real bridge. The Tsing Ma bridge is the world's longest suspension bridge to carry both a highway and railway, and is located in one of the world’s most active typhoon regions. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this is an ideal reference book for students, researchers, and engineering practitioners.

European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring

European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring
Author: Piervincenzo Rizzo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 969
Release: 2021-01-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030645940

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems. The volume covers highly diverse topics, including signal processing, smart sensors, autonomous systems, remote sensing and support, UAV platforms for SHM, Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and SHM for civil structures and infrastructures. The contributions, which are published after a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists. The contents of this volume reflect the outcomes of the activities of EWSHM (European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring) in 2020.

Ambient Vibration Monitoring

Ambient Vibration Monitoring
Author: Helmut Wenzel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2005-12-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0470024313

In-operation vibration monitoring for complex mechanical structures and rotating machines is of key importance in many industrial areas such as aeronautics (wings and other structures subject to strength), automobile (gearbox mounting with a sports car body), rail transportation, power engineering (rotating machines, core and pipes of nuclear power plants), and civil engineering (large buildings subject to hurricanes or earthquakes, bridges, dams, offshore structures). Tools for the detection and the diagnosis of small changes in vibratory characteristics are particularly useful to set up a preventive maintenance policy based on the actual evolution of the state of the monitored machine or structure, as opposed to systematic a priori planning. Ambient Vibration Monitoring is the backbone of such structural assessment monitoring and control. It provides the possibility to gain useful data under ambient conditions for the assessment of structures and components. Written by a widely respected authority in this area, Ambient Vibration Monitoring describes the current practice of ambient vibration methodologies illustrated by a number of practical examples. Designed to aid the practical engineer with their understanding of the topic, it is the culmination of many years of practical research and includes numerous ‘real world’ examples. It also provides information on applicable solutions. This book will enable not only practitioners (in civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering), but also researchers and students, to learn more about the theory and practical applications of this subject.