Introduction
One of the case-studies that I have worked on during my PhD thesis is a pedestrian steel bridge located at the University of Warwick campus. It connects a span of approximately 43m and was built in July 1994.
Monitoring system
The bridge has been equipped with an array of sensors, including: accelerometers, inclinometers, thermocouples, hygrometers, anemometers and a laser sensor for displacement monitoring.
An interesting aspect of this monitoring system is that its a wireless node coordination and data collection system. The three self-powered wireless nodes transmit all of the data through a gateway, into a dedicated local server.
Physics-based FE model
A finite element (FE) model of this structure has been developed with ANSYS, for posterior calibration/updating against monitored data.
