1 Abstract The DECNIS 500/600 high-performance multiprotocol bridge/router and gateway are described. The issues affecting the design of routers with this class of performance are outlined, along with a description of the architecture and implementation. The system described uses a distributed forwarding algorithm and a distributed buffer management algorithm executed on plug-in linecards to ac...

A health monitoring system was designed and installed on Dafosi Bridge, the largest cable-stayed bridge across the Yangtze River in western China. This article briefly describes an online deflection monitoring system, the most important sensing subsystem of the health monitoring system. It can be divided into two major components, one for measurement, and one for control and data processing. Th...

Maintenance and repair of the bridge are inevitable in operation a to maintain its condition keep operation. Indonesia has hundreds thousands bridges that still actively use. The classic problem with infrastructure management, such as bridges, is large numbers generally not balanced adequate maintenance budgets. Therefore,the strategy implementing by preparing priorities becomes only logical ap...

Rapid developments of structural sensing and control, data acquisition and processing, and computer technologies have made it feasible to monitor the structural health of large-scale structures in real time. SHM of large-scale infrastructures has increasingly attracted extensive interests from both fields of research and application. Based on recent research achievements of developing smart SHM...

Rapidly deployable mobile bridges are of direct relevance to military and civilian agencies. The US Army uses such bridges in a broad range of applications including assault, tactical, and general communication. Civilian use extends from temporary infrastructure improvements during natural disasters to planned situations that are equally critical. This paper describes a modular bridge system de...

The Bridge Bidding Practice System allows bridge players to practice and refine their bidding strategies. Users are able to practice bidding with their partners as well as by themselves. The system has been designed so that the user can create decks (sets of four hands) in which they assign rule(s) to specific players’ hands. Once a deck has been dealt, each player can place his or her bids. Af...

In this article, a new CAD model for the coplanar waveguide (CPW) cross-over air-bridge is proposed. The model takes into account the CPW open-end capacitance and the vertical strips of the bridge. The section directly underneath the bridge is modeled as a small section of a microstrip line. Our results are in good agreement with the published full-wave results. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. I...