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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144385203321

Autore

Wenzel Helmut

Titolo

Health monitoring of bridges [[electronic resource] /] / Helmut Wenzel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, U.K., : Wiley, 2009

ISBN

1-282-00381-X

9786612003813

0-470-74017-5

0-470-74018-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (656 p.)

Disciplina

624.2028/7

624.20287

624.25

Soggetti

Bridges - Inspection

Bridge failures - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. (592-600) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

HEALTH MONITORING OF BRIDGES; Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction and Motivation; 1.1 Health Monitoring; 1.2 Client Requirements and Motivation; 2 Bridge Management and Health Monitoring; 2.1 Bridge Management Philosophy; 2.2 Structural Health Monitoring; 2.3 Examples of Bridge Management Systems; 2.4 Protection of Bridges against Man-Made and Natural Hazards; 3 Bridge Rating and Risk Assessment; 3.1 Inspection Rating; 3.2 The BRIMOS® Rating; 3.3 Probabilistic Approach in SHM; 3.4 Risks from Natural Hazards

3.5 Vehicle and Ship Impact3.6 Man-Made Hazards; 4 Damage Detection and Assessment; 4.1 Weak Point Detection and Fatigue Assessment; 4.2 Condition Compensation in Frequency Analyses; 4.3 Model Updating and System Identification; 4.4 Performance Assessment (Damping, Time-Histories); 4.5 Discussion of the SHM Axioms; 4.6 Safety Assessment; 5 Decision Support Systems; 5.1 Decision Support Systems for SHM; 5.2 Architecture; 5.3 The Operation Modes; 5.4 Monitoring System and Databases; 5.5 Current Status of the System;



5.6 Data Treatment; 5.7 Data Storage; 6 Lifetime Assessment of Bridges

6.1 Lifetime Assessment Procedure6.2 Hot-Spot Detection; 6.3 Statistical Pattern Recognition; 6.4 Application Example: Steel Bridge; 6.5 Ongoing Research and Development Projects; 7 Bridge SHM Methodologies; 7.1 Ambient Vibration Monitoring; 7.2 Deflection and Displacement Monitoring; 7.3 Fatigue Assessment by Monitoring; 7.4 Corrosion, Carbonization, Chlorite Content; 7.5 Load Transfers; 7.6 Material Properties; 8 The Business Case for SHM of Bridges; 8.1 Incentives for SHM of Bridges; 8.2 The Costs of SHM of Bridges; 8.3 The Future of the SHM Business; 8.4 Typical SHM Service Catalogue

9 Applications9.1 Melk Bridge M6 Austria; 9.2 Porr Bridge, Vienna, Austria; 9.3 Warth Bridge, Austria; 9.4 Putlitz Bridge, Berlin, Germany; 9.5 Westend Bridge, Berlin, Germany; 9.6 Neisse Viaduct, Zittau, Germany; 9.7 Commodore John Barry Bridge, Delaware River, USA; 9.8 Bridge BE 109/21, B ̈utzberg, Switzerland; 9.9 RAMA IX Bridge, Bangkok, Thailand; 9.10 Titulcia Steel Bridge, Madrid, Spain; 9.11 Sz ́echenyi Bridge, Gyor, Hungary; 9.12 ESK 551 Bridge, Bad Bevensen, Germany; 9.13 The New Arsta Railway Bridge, Stockholm Sweden; 9.14 The New Svinesund Bridge, Sweden

9.15 BridgeZ24, Koppigen-Utzenstorf, Switzerland9.16 Roberval Bridge, Senlis, France; 9.17 Saint-Jean Bridge, Bordeaux, France; 9.18 Øresund Bridge, Denmark - Sweden; 9.19 Ting Kau Bridge, Hong Kong, China; 9.20 Skovdiget Bridge Columns, Denmark; 9.21 Skovdiget Bridge Superstructure, Denmark; 9.22 Bolshoj Moskvoretsky Bridge, Moscow, Russia; 9.23 Versoix Bridge, Geneva, Switzerland; 9.24 Tsing Ma Bridge, Hong Kong, China; 9.25 A14 Huntingdon Railway Viaduct, England; 9.26 Highway Bridge BW91, Germany; 9.27 Herrenbr ̈ucke, L ̈ubeck, Germany; 9.28 Pasir Panjang Semi-Expressway, Singapore

9.29 Pioneer Bridge, Singapore

Sommario/riassunto

Health Monitoring of Bridges prepares the bridge engineering community for the exciting new technological developments happening in the industry, offering the benefit of much research carried out in the aerospace and other industrial sectors and discussing the latest methodologies available for the management of bridge stock.  Health Monitoring of Bridges: Includes chapters on the hardware used in health monitoring, methodologies, applications of these methodologies (materials, methods, systems and functions), decision support systems, damage detection systems and t