Wireless monitoring of a multispan bridge superstructure for diagnostic load testing and system identification

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 560-579

  Gangone, Michael V ^a   Whelan, Matthew J ^b   Janoyan, Kerop D ^a  

^a Clarkson University   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT VIBRATION MONITORING; BRIDGE MONITORING; CLARKSON UNIVERSITY; DIAGNOSTIC LOADS; HIGH RATE; LARGE-SCALE SENSORS; LOAD DISTRIBUTIONS; MODAL CHARACTERISTICS; MODE SHAPES; MULTI-SPAN BRIDGES; NEUTRAL AXIS LOCATIONS; OPERATING LOADS; SIMPLY SUPPORTED; STRUCTURAL MONITORING; WIRED SENSORS; WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS MONITORING; WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM;

ACCELEROMETERS; MONITORING; SENSOR ARRAYS; TRANSDUCERS;

LOAD TESTING;

ACCELEROMETER; BRIDGE; DATA TRANSMISSION; LOADING TEST; MONITORING; SENSOR; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; VIBRATION;

EID: 80051473767     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2010.00711.x     Document Type: Article

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