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  • Civil Engineering
  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Aging bridges pose significant risks, with support and joint failures being common causes of collapse.
  • Current structural health monitoring often overlooks bridge supports, despite their critical role in overall bridge integrity.
  • Accurate assessment of bridge support fixity is essential for early detection of bearing degradation and enhancing monitoring systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel method for quantifying bridge support fixity using thermal response data.
  • To investigate the relationship between thermal displacement and varying support stiffness, superstructure damage, and thermal loads.
  • To enhance the accuracy and reliability of bridge structural health monitoring systems by focusing on support conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a support fixity quantification method utilizing Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models.
  • Creation of a finite element (FE) model of a highway bridge to simulate thermal displacement under various conditions.
  • Validation of the FE model and ANN predictions using field monitoring data from two operational bridges in Connecticut.

Main Results:

  • The study successfully simulated thermal displacement patterns indicative of different support fixity levels.
  • The trained ANN model demonstrated proficiency in predicting support stiffness based on thermal response data.
  • Field data validation confirmed the practical applicability and accuracy of the developed FE-ANN approach.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based method provides a reliable approach for quantifying bridge support fixity using thermal responses.
  • This technique offers a valuable tool for assessing bearing health and improving the precision of bridge structural health monitoring.
  • The findings highlight the importance of monitoring bridge supports to ensure the safety and longevity of critical infrastructure.