Three Experimental Applications of Health Algorithms to Improve Infrastructure Inspection
Abstract
This paper presents three applications of structural health evaluation from data collection to damage location. The first test setup was a standard railway track with an adjustable sleeper to allow for artificial defects. The second test setup was a student-built reinforced concrete bridge with various rubber bearings to represent joint softening. The third test location was a skewed on-campus highway bridge built in 1940 with no maintenance record. The obtained data sets were analyzed with an in-house structural health evaluation program, performing modal decomposition and applying twelve different damage detection algorithms.
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