Structural Health Monitoring of Bridge Abutments using Imaging Radar and Digital Image Correlation

Authors:
Tzuyang Yu, Jones Owusu Twumasi, Viet Le, Chris Nonis, Daniel Reagan, and Chris Niezrecki

Affiliations:
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, 01854
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, 01854

Date Submitted:February 12th, 2016

Key Terms:  Imaging radar, digital image correlation, bridge abutment, surface distressing, subsurface rebar detection

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Monitoring of the Sunrise Movable Bridge

Authors: Mustafa Gul and F. Necati Catbas

Affiliations: Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering Department, University of Central Florida Orlando, FL, US

Date Submitted:October 21st, 2015

Key Terms:  Long-term monitoring, Maintenance, Damage/anomaly detection

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Structural Identification and Fatigue Assessements of the Aarwangen Bridge Using Load-Test Data

Authors: Romain Pasquier and Ian F.C. Smith

Affiliations: Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory (IMAC), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Date Submitted:November 19th, 2015

Key Terms:  structural identification, model falsification, population-based prognosis, diagnosis robustness

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Accounting for Environmental Effects during Monitoring of the Dowling Hall Footbridge

Authors: Iman Behmanesh, and Babak Moaveni

Affiliations: WSP Group, New York, NY; Former graduate student at Tufts University Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA

Date Submitted: September 17th, 2015

Key Terms: Environmental effects, continuous monitoring, FE model updating, system identifiaction

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Piezoelectric strain-based member-level health monitoring for a large scale steel frame test bed

Authors: Masahiro Kurata and Xiaohua Li

Affiliations:  Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, Dept. of Arch. and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan

Date Submitted: Sept 17th, 2015

Key Terms: steel moment-resisting frame, dynamic strain, wireless sensors, damage quantification

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Validation of Wireless Monitoring Technology Densely Instrumented on a Full-Scale Concrete Frame Structure

Authors: Xinjun Dong, Xi Liu, Timothy Wright, Yang Wang, and Reginald DesRoches

Affiliations: Georgia Institute of Technology

Date Submitted: Sept 17th, 2015

Key Terms: dynamic testing, wireless sensors, system identification, reinforced concrete frames, damage identification

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Temperature-Based SHM of a Steel Tied-Arch Bridge (Yarnold, Moon)

Authors: Matthew Yarnold and Franklin Moon

Affiliations: Tennessee Technological University and Drexel University

Date Submitted: July 27th, 2015

Key Terms: Structural health monitoring, long-span bridge, temperature effects, thermal analysis, and field testing.

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