Vehicle-assisted techniques for health monitoring of bridges

H Shokravi, H Shokravi, N Bakhary, M Heidarrezaei… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bridges are designed to withstand different types of loads, including dead, live,
environmental, and occasional loads during their service period. Moving vehicles are the …

State-of-the-art review of dynamic impact factors of highway bridges

L Deng, Y Yu, Q Zou, CS Cai - Journal of Bridge Engineering, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
Dynamic impact of moving vehicles on bridges is an important and long-standing issue in
the design and evaluation of bridges and has received much attention from researchers and …

[HTML][HTML] Deep autoencoder architecture for bridge damage assessment using responses from several vehicles

MZ Sarwar, D Cantero - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Vehicle-assisted monitoring is a promising alternative for rapid and low-cost bridge health
monitoring compared to direct instrumentation of bridges. In recent years, centralized …

Identification of bridge mode shapes using short time frequency domain decomposition of the responses measured in a passing vehicle

A Malekjafarian, EJ OBrien - Engineering Structures, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper processes the signals from accelerometers mounted on a vehicle travelling over
a bridge. Short Time Frequency Domain Decomposition (STFDD) is used to estimate bridge …

Identification of dam** in a bridge using a moving instrumented vehicle

A González, EJ OBrien, PJ McGetrick - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2012 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of bridges which are
being instrumented and monitored on an ongoing basis. This is in part due to the …

Damped test vehicle for scanning bridge frequencies: Theory, simulation and experiment

H Xu, CC Huang, ZL Wang, K Shi, YT Wu… - Journal of Sound and …, 2021 - Elsevier
By the vehicle scanning method, an instrumented test vehicle is used to scan the
frequencies of vibration of the underlying bridge. In this paper, a realistic theory is proposed …

The use of a dynamic truck–trailer drive-by system to monitor bridge dam**

J Keenahan, EJ OBrien, PJ McGetrick… - Structural Health …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Bridge structures are continuously subject to degradation due to the environment, ageing
and excess loading. Periodic monitoring of bridges is therefore a key part of any …

A wavelet-based damage detection algorithm based on bridge acceleration response to a vehicle

D Hester, A González - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2012 - Elsevier
Previous research based on theoretical simulations has shown the potential of the wavelet
transform to detect damage in a beam by analysing the time-deflection response due to a …

A novel extraction method for the actual influence line of bridge structures

NB Wang, C Wang, H Zhou, Q Zuo - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel numerical method for accurately extracting bridge influence line
(IL) from dynamic responses of general bridge structures. In this method, the IL is …

A drive-by inspection system via vehicle moving force identification

EJ OBrien, PJ Mcgetrick, A González - Smart Structures and …, 2014 - pure.qub.ac.uk
This paper presents a novel method to carry out monitoring of transport infrastructure such
as pavements and bridges through the analysis of vehicle accelerations. An algorithm is …