The development of structural health monitoring (SHM) technology has evolved for over fifteen years in Hong Kong since the implementation of the “Wind And Structural Health Monitoring System (WASHMS)” on the suspension Tsing Ma Bridge in 1997. Five cable-supported bridges in Hong Kong, namely the Tsing Ma (suspension) Bridge, the Kap Shui Mun (cable-stayed) Bridge, the Ting Kau (cable-stayed) B...

This study is the result of a rehearsal to find factors that are main reasons for delay in completion Sei Wampu Bridge project, Empus Village Project, Bahorok Regency and look various alternatives overcome them. By knowing these factors, it hoped company can obtain guidelines working on subsequent projects so delays quality deficiencies be avoided. The author this used qualitative approach with...

performance of structures during recent earthquakes shows that the effect of vertical component of earthquake (vce) could be considered as one of the main causes of bridges collapse. in most of bridge design codes, for seismic analysis of bridges, vce is not taken into account or a distinguished method isn’t presented for assessment of vce. in the present work, the effect of vce on two existing...

A series of bridge collapse take place in recent years, which cause people to pay more attention to bridge health monitoring and early warning. An intelligent health monitoring system for bridges is proposed after analyzing the functions and characteristics of the current bridge health monitoring system. The paper first introduce main functions of system and key technologies, then mainly introd...