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Determining structural properties of a prestressed concrete bridge through the combination of static and dynamic load testing

Bertola, Numa Joy  
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Reuland, Yves  
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Brühwiler, Eugen  
July 2024
Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring
11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring

Examining structural safety requires hypotheses on several properties of the bridge structure, such as material properties, boundary conditions, and self-weight. The traditional approach relies on conservative assumptions for each structural property, following the conventional new-design approach. Nonetheless, this approach leads to conservative evaluations of the bridge capacity and may lead to the erroneous conclusion that the structure is deficient. Over-conservatism in structural safety assessments may have large environmental and economic impacts on global infrastructure management. A more advanced approach is to conduct multiple tests and monitoring activities on the structural system to provide more accurate values of these bridge properties. This paper presents a methodology to determine several parameters, including the structural stiffness, the boundary conditions, and the self-weight of concrete bridges based on static and dynamic load testing and robust data-interpretation techniques. The methodology is used on a prestressed concrete bridge in Switzerland. This bridge from 1958 has a single span of 35 meters. Prior to monitoring, conservative evaluations (using the conventional approach) led to the conclusion that the bridge has structural deficiencies. After monitoring, the bridge demonstrates significant reserve capacity, mostly due to the reduction of the self-weight safety factor. This study shows the potential of monitoring techniques for more sustainable and economic infrastructure management.

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conference paper
DOI
10.58286/29640
Author(s)
Bertola, Numa Joy  
Reuland, Yves  

ETH Zurich

Brühwiler, Eugen  

EPFL

Date Issued

2024-07

Published in
Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring
Published in
e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing
Volume

29

Issue

7

Subjects

Bridge load testing

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Structural identification

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Existing bridges

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Structural health monitoring; Fiber optic sensor

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring

EWSHM

Potsdam, Germany

2024-06-10 - 2024-06-13

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September 4, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/240953
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