Recent structural collapses of bridges and damaging occurred on deck and dampers of suspension bridges, are driving the development of monitoring techniques for the structural integrity assessment of primary lifelines. Structural Health Monitoring combines a variety of methods for observed dynamic systems response detection of different structural systems. Among others techniques, Operational M...

Operational modal testing and analysis is a direct and efficient way to understand the dynamic properties of full scale bridges. For the purpose of bridge modeling, monitoring, condition assessment, damage detection, maintenance and rehabilitation, this paper is intended to share ideas and experiences that are devoted to innovative applications in full scale bridges when the bridge modal parame...

Finite element analysis methods have been used to calculate the effects of trimming bridges on the first several frequencies of vibration. Violin bridges and both standard and Belgian designs of cello bridges have been investigated. Calculations of both in-plane and out-of-plane vibrating modes have been made when the feet were rigidly fixed. In one case, no motion out-of-plane was permitted. I...

Cantilever beams have an important role in day to day life in bridges, towers, buildings and aircraft wings, making active vibration suppression a highly researched field. The purpose of this paper is to detail the design of fractional order PID controllers for smart beams. A novel tuning procedure is proposed based on solving a set of nonlinear complex equations that directly aim at reducing t...

High-speed trains with the maximum speed of 300 km/h, named as Korea Train Express (KTX), have started revenue services since April 2004. Because of the geomorphologic conditions of Korea a large portion of the ‘Kyung-Bu’ line is comprised of tunnels or bridges, which may cause excessive noise in a vehicle. The vibration generated by the trains propagates into the tunnel and the vehicle structu...

To estimate the fatigue life of long-span steel bridge more accurately, this paper proposes a method for estimating the fatigue life of long-span bridges by considering vehicle-bridge coupled vibration. Firstly, the universal equation of vehicle-bridge vibration is derived based on triaxial standard multi-scale model of fatigue vehicle and bridge, and relevant program for vehicle-bridge coupled...

Structural vibration testing is a measurement technique that is used in engineering to examine the condition of structures, such as bridges and airplanes. The basic idea behind structural vibration testing is that damage will alter the stiffness, mass or energy dissipation properties of a system, which in turn will change the dynamic response of the system when it is excited with a forcing func...

There are a number of parameters influencing the dynamic and seismic response of bridges. Of these, two important parameters warranting special notice include: the properties of the neoperenes in the state of connection between girders and columns and the shear stiffness of underlying soil in the level of bridge substructure’s connectivity to the ground. In &#10this paper, the effects of these ...