Railroad Bridge Monitoring Case Study: Little Calumet River Bridge

Authors:

Fernando Moreu, Robin Kim, Kirill Mechitov, and Billie F. Spencer, Jr.

Affiliations: 

University of New Mexico, Korea Institute of Civil engineering and building Technology Fire Research Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Date Submitted: May 10th, 2016

Key Terms: 

Life load testing, dynamic testing, wireless sensors, system identification, railroad bridge testing

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Monitoring case study: Government Bridge

Authors:
Soojin Cho, Ryan Giles, Kirill Mechitov, and Billie F. Spencer, Jr.

Affiliations:
University of Seoul, Stony Brook University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Date Submitted:
May 6th, 2016

Key Terms: 
Wireless sensor network, swing bridge, multimetric structural health monitoring, system identification, event detection.

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Monitoring case study: 2nd Jindo Bridge

Authors:
Jongwoong Park, Soojin Cho, Hyung-Jo Jung, Jian Li, Kirill Mechitov, and Billie F. Spencer, Jr.

Affiliations:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Seoul, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, University of Kansas

Date Submitted:
May 6th, 2016

Key Terms: 
Wireless sensor network, long-term structural health monitoring, cable-stayed bridge, system identification, cable tension monitoring.

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Monitoring case study: Mahomet Bridge

Authors:
Shinae Jang, Jian Li, Kirill Mechitov, and Billie F. Spencer, Jr.

Affiliations:
University of Connecticut, University of Kansas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Date Submitted:
May 6th, 2016

Key Terms: 
Wireless sensor network, truss bridge, decentralized damage detection, dynamic testing.

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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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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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