Reference-Free Displacements for Condition Assessment of Timber Railroad Bridges
- Authors
- Moreu, F.; Li, J.; Jo, H.; Robin Eunju; Scola, S.; Spencer, B. F., Jr.; LaFave, J. M.
- Issue Date
- Feb-2016
- Publisher
- ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
- Keywords
- Acceleration; Railroad bridges; Live load testing; Displacement; Wooden bridges; Wireless smart sensors
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF BRIDGE ENGINEERING, v.21, no.2, pp.1 - 12
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF BRIDGE ENGINEERING
- Volume
- 21
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 12
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/23950
- DOI
- 10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0000805
- ISSN
- 1084-0702
- Abstract
- Current railroad bridge inspection and rating practices include observing bridge movement under live loads to help assess bridge conditions. Recent research has shown that transverse displacements of timber trestle bridges can capture critical changes in bridge serviceability (the ability to safely carry out railroad operations) as a function of railroad loading, speed, and direction. Measuring bridge movement under trains in the field is difficult and expensive because a fixed reference point is not normally available, thus creating the need to erect independent scaffolding to create good reference points near a timber bridge. This research demonstrates the potential of using reference-free accelerations collected with wireless smart sensors to estimate railroad bridge transverse displacements under live train loads. Focus is placed on timber trestle bridges, which comprise approximately 24% of the total inventory length of railroad bridges in the United States. The results show that wireless smart sensors can estimate transverse displacements of timber railroad trestles and could become an effective tool for campaign monitoring of railroad bridges (with applications toward helping overall bridge assessment).
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