As a part of vital infrastructure and transportation networks, bridge structures must function safely at alltimes. However, due to heavier and faster moving vehicular loads and function adjustment, such asBusway accommodation, many bridges are now operating at an overload beyond their design capacity.Additionally, the huge renovation and replacement costs always make the infrastructure ownersdifficult to undertake. Structural health monitoring (SHM) is set to assess condition and ...
As a part of vital infrastructure and transportation networks, bridge structures must function safely at alltimes. However, due to heavier and faster moving vehicular loads and function adjustment, such asBusway accommodation, many bridges are now operating at an overload beyond their design capacity.Additionally, the huge renovation and replacement costs always make the infrastructure ownersdifficult to undertake. Structural health monitoring (SHM) is set to assess condition and ...
As a part of vital infrastructure and transportation networks, bridge structures must function safely at alltimes. However, due to heavier and faster moving vehicular loads and function adjustment, such asBusway accommodation, many bridges are now operating at an overload beyond their design capacity.Additionally, the huge renovation and replacement costs always make the infrastructure ownersdifficult to undertake. Structural health monitoring (SHM) is set to assess condition and ...
This paper presents the application of a novel vibration-based technique for detecting fatiguecracks in structures. The method utilizes the empirical mode decomposition method (EMD) toestablish an effective energy-based damage index. To investigate the feasibility of the method,fatigue cracks of different sizes were introduced in an aluminum beam subjected to a cyclic loadunder a three-point bending configuration. The vibration signals corresponding to the healthyand the damaged states of the ...