Connecticut permanent long-term bridge monitoring network, volume 3 : monitoring of a multi-steel girder composite bridge - I-91 SB over the Mattabesset River in Cromwell (bridge #3078).

Details

• Creators:
  Plude, Shelley ; Prusaczyk, Stephen ; Scianna, Adam ; Jiang, Zhaoshuo ; Christenson, Richard E. ; Kim, Jeong-Ho ; DeWolf, John T.
• Corporate Creators:
  Connecticut Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration ; Connecticut. Dept. of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Steel bridges
  • Girders
  • Structural health monitoring
  • Remote sensing
  • Field studies
  • Temperature
  • Instrumentation
  • Data collection
  • Strain (Mechanics)
  • Load tests
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CT-2256-4-13-5
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Connecticut
• Corporate Publisher:
  Connecticut Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  This report describes the instrumentation and data acquisition for a multi-girder, composite steel bridge in Connecticut. The ; computer-based remote monitoring system was developed to collect information on the girder bending strains. The monitoring ; system was installed in 2004 to collect girder strains. The bridge is part of a network of bridges in a long-term research project to ; evaluate the performance of a variety of bridges in Connecticut. Data has been collected over a multi-year period using normal ; vehicular traffic. A series of papers has been generated to explore how the monitoring of this bridge can provide information of ; use to the Department of Transportation. The initial study involved the development of the data collection approach, used load ; tests and finite element analyses to describe the behavior, and used the data to make comparisons with the AASHTO ; Specification Requirements. The next study continued the development of the data from normal truck traffic to determine load ; and patterns and to propose guidelines for the long-term structural health monitoring of this bridge. The third study demonstrated ; that the monitoring system can also be used as a Bridge Weigh-In-Motion system. The monitoring system serves as a non-intrusive system to provide information on both the quantity and weights of trucks crossing the bridge. In the next study damage ; measures were developed for this bridge and compared to the inherent variability of actual bridge measurements to determine the ; minimum level of damage that can be detected by the system. The final study described in this report identifies and quantifies ; different data qualification measures needed for the structural health monitoring of this bridge.
  More +
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  SPR-2256
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28390/dot_28390_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 836.79 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cd1b7cdedf4596f8072ba0c32a91c7c5e643936d0a2cd253a8301195c2a83e5f