Journal
STRUCTURAL CONTROL & HEALTH MONITORING
Volume 24, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/stc.1979
Keywords
condition assessment; expansion joints; long-span bridges; ship collision; structural health monitoring; tuned mass damper
Funding
- Jiangsu Provincial Transportation Department [2011Y03-2]
- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Science and Technology
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Structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridges has gained rapid development in the past few years. This paper describes application of SHM on long-span bridges in China, with the aim to illustrate its practical value. A short review of its development and practice is firstly introduced. Three case studies are subsequently presented on utilization of SHM data in engineering practice. In the first case study, a ship collision incident is analyzed using SHM data. An alarm is sent and confirmed when the collision occurred, and mode parameters are identified with GPS measurements to evaluate the bridge condition. In the second case study, damage of expansion joints in a suspension bridge is assessed with girder end displacement measurements. Malfunction of viscous damper is found to correlate with cumulative displacement. The results show that cumulative displacement can be used for condition assessment of expansion joints. In the third case study, the performance of tuned mass dampers is evaluated with wind and vibration measurements before and after tuned mass damper installation. Through explanation of these case studies, the paper illustrates how to distill useful insights from SHM data, which could be instructive for further research in this field.
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