Sunshine Skyway Bridge monitoring phase I : system assessment and integration recommendations.

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• Creators:
  Rice, Jennifer A. ; Davis, Justin R.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Florida. Dept. of Civil and Coastal Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  Florida. Department of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Structural health monitoring
  • Bridge management systems
  • Cable stayed bridges
  • Sunshine Skyway Bridge
  • Bridge monitoring
  • Cable-stayed bridge
  • structural health monitoring
  • bridge management
  • sensors
  • data acquisition
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Tampa (Florida)
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  The Sunshine Skyway Bridge has several different types of monitoring instruments in place maintained by Florida ; Department of Transportation (FDOT) offices, divisions, and partners. The current decentralized approach to data collection ; and monitoring on the bridge has resulted in a number of inefficiencies in the methods by which equipment is maintained ; and observational data is obtained. Although the safety of day-to-day bridge operations is not being compromised, the ; existing inefficiencies and challenges could be mitigated by a more robust, holistic monitoring system design, which would ; also support system expansion to accommodate additional sensors and more sophisticated monitoring approaches. The longterm ; research goal is to take the system from its current limited functionality to a fully integrated and highly flexible ; monitoring system with a user-friendly Web interface and full data archiving. This proposed system will combine data from ; existing sensors (weather stations, GNSS/GPS, accelerometers, etc.) into a single monitoring interface for data visualization ; and alerts. To leverage the data produced by the integrated monitoring system, a calibrated finite element model will be ; developed for use in setting loading and response thresholds for warning and maintenance decisions. The first step in ; achieving these goals is to understand the challenges and limitations of the existing monitoring system. As such, the larger ; research effort is divided into phases, and this report describes Phase I, in which the observations and recommendations in ; achieving the project’s goals have been summarized.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  FDOT Contract No. BDV31-977-43
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31669/dot_31669_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.81 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:69582441e0386fc66b497af8f9741e063b7ea4cc4ca597b476254a2160537c93