In bridge health monitoring, tiltmeters have been used for measuring rotation and curvature; however, their application in dynamic parameter identification has been lacking. This study installed fiber Bragg grating (FBG) tiltmeters on the bearings of a bridge and monitored the dynamic rotational angle. The dynamic features, including natural frequencies and mode shapes, have been identified suc...

In this study, we focused mainly on establishing a new sensitive method to identify location of damages in Service Bridge. The improved method of combination of Autoregressive models (AR) and autoregressive models with exogenous inputs (ARX) was applied to identify the damage in Service Bridge. Firstly, an improved AR-ARX model was established for damage identification of bridge on service. Sec...

Highway bridges are frequently constructed as simple span structures with steel or concrete girders and a cast-in-place concrete deck, spanning from one pier to another. At each end of the simple span deck, a joint is provided for deck movement due to temperature, shrinkage, and creep. Bridge deck joints are expensive and pose many problems with regard to bridge maintenance. Elimination of deck...

Abstract The article presents a prototype steel–concrete bridge with the results of trial load tests. In design structure, new approaches were used, so-called concept hybrid cross section. obtained interpreted against background theoretical analysis performed and experience behavior existing standard structures. are to be starting point for development methods calculating this type particular e...