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Area of Science:

  • Civil Engineering
  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Sensor Technology

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  • Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is crucial for bridge infrastructure management.
  • Bridge rotation measurements using accelerometers offer a cost-effective SHM approach.
  • Existing event detection methods often require expensive additional instrumentation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a cost-effective event detection method for bridge SHM.
  • To leverage existing tri-axial MEMS accelerometers for vehicle event triggering.
  • To reduce the need for specialized vehicle detection equipment in SHM systems.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized generalized variance over a short sliding window for event detection.
  • Employed raw acceleration data from tri-axial MEMS accelerometers.
  • Validated the method through numerical simulations and case studies on in-service bridges.

Main Results:

  • Successfully discriminated individual vehicle loading events from acceleration data.
  • Demonstrated robust performance under varying vehicle types and sensor locations.
  • Achieved low computational requirements ( < 400 ARM A32 instructions) and latency (47 microseconds) on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method offers a cost-effective solution for event detection in bridge SHM.
  • Exploiting existing rotation instrumentation simplifies SHM systems and reduces costs.
  • The technique is suitable for real-time implementation in resource-constrained environments.