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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/sem.2004.18.5.609

Highway bridge live loading assessment and load carrying capacity estimation using a health monitoring system  

Moyo, Pilate (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town)
Brownjohn, James Mark William (School of Engineering, University of Plymouth)
Omenzetter, Piotr (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland)
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Structural Engineering and Mechanics / v.18, no.5, 2004 , pp. 609-626 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Land Transport Authority of Singapore has a continuing program of highway bridge upgrading, to refurbish and strengthen bridges to allow for increasing vehicle traffic and increasing axle loads. One subject of this program has been a short span bridge taking a busy highway across a coastal inlet near a major port facility. Experiment-based structural assessments of the bridge were conducted before and after upgrading works including strengthening. Each assessment exercise comprised two separate components; a strain and acceleration monitoring exercise lasting approximately one month, and a full-scale dynamic test carried out in a single day. This paper reports the application of extreme value statistics to estimate bridge live loads using strain measurements.
Keywords
bridge assessment; extreme value statistics; structural health monitoring; bridge live loading;
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