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This paper explores the feasibility of utilizing the response recorded by a single moving sensor to identify the modal parameters of a bridge system under different loading conditions, such as known excitation and unknown random…
This study presents a flexible approach for bridge modal identification using smartphone data collected by a large pool of passing vehicles. With each trip of a mobile sensor, the spatio-temporal response of the bridge is sampled, plus…
Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) of ambient vibrations is a promising technique in the context of structural health monitoring of civil engineering structures. The methodology uses Rayleigh backscattered light from small deformations at…
Image-based vibration mode identification gained increased attentions in civil and construction communities. A recent video-based motion magnification method was developed to measure and visualize small structure motions. This new approach…
The knowledge gap in the expected and actual conditions of bridges has created worldwide deficits in infrastructure service and funding challenges. Despite rapid advances over the past four decades, sensing technology is still not a part of…
Bridge Health Monitoring (BHM) enables early damage detection of bridges and is thus critical for avoiding more severe damages that might result in major financial and human losses. However, conventional BHM systems require dedicated…
This study proposes a learning-based method with domain adaptability for input estimation of vehicle suspension systems. In a crowdsensing setting for bridge health monitoring, vehicles carry sensors to collect samples of the bridge's…
We introduce a physics-guided signal processing approach to extract a damage-sensitive and domain-invariant (DS & DI) feature from acceleration response data of a vehicle traveling over a bridge to assess bridge health. Motivated by…
Drive-by inspection for bridge health monitoring has gained increasing attention over the past decade. This method involves analysing the coupled vehicle-bridge response, recorded by an instrumented inspection vehicle, to assess structural…
In the practical application of the Bridge Weigh-In-Motion (BWIM) methods, the position of the wheels or axles during the passage of a vehicle is in most cases a prerequisite. To avoid the use of conventional axle detectors and bridge type…
We develop data-driven dynamical models of the nonlinear aeroelastic effects on a long-span suspension bridge from sparse, noisy sensor measurements which monitor the bridge. Using the {\em sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics}…
A key challenge in monitoring and managing the structural health of bridges is the high-cost associated with specialized sensor networks. In the past decade, researchers predicted that cheap, ubiquitous mobile sensors would revolutionize…
Wireless sensor network (WSN) based SHM systems have shown significant improvement as compared to traditional wired-SHM systems in terms of cost, accuracy, and reliability of the monitoring. However, due to the resource-constrained nature…
The rising number of bridge collapses worldwide has compelled governments to introduce predictive maintenance strategies to extend structural lifespan. In this context, vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) techniques utilizing…
Monitoring bridge health using vibrations of drive-by vehicles has various benefits, such as no need for directly installing and maintaining sensors on the bridge. However, many of the existing drive-by monitoring approaches are based on…
Mobility On Demand (MOD) systems are revolutionizing transportation in urban settings by improving vehicle utilization and reducing parking congestion. A key factor in the success of an MOD system is the ability to measure and respond to…
Accurate detection of road and bridge changes is crucial for urban planning and transportation management, yet presents unique challenges for general change detection (CD). Key difficulties arise from maintaining the continuity of roads and…
In this paper, we propose a novel integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) scheme to perform bridge micro-deformation monitoring (BMDM) in complex environments. We first provide an excitation-bridge coupling model to represent the…
Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology leverages fiber optic cables to detect vibrations and acoustic events, which is a promising solution for real-time traffic monitoring. In this paper, we introduce a novel methodology for…
This paper presents an output-only method to identify road roughness profiles from axle accelerations of a moving vehicle. A two degree of freedom half-car model is discretised with a zero-order hold and a backward-difference approximation…