title: Integrated system of structural health monitoring and intelligent management for a cable-stayed bridge.
abstract: It is essential to construct structural health monitoring systems for large important bridges. Zhijiang Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that was built recently over the Hangzhou Qiantang River (the largest river in Zhejiang Province). The length of Zhijiang Bridge is 478 m, which comprises an arched twin-tower space and a twin-cable plane structure. As an example, the present study describes the integrated system of structural health monitoring and intelligent management for Zhijiang Bridge, which comprises an information acquisition system, data management system, evaluation and decision-making system, and application service system. The monitoring components include the working environment of the bridge and various factors that affect bridge safety, such as the stress and strain of the main bridge structure, vibration, cable force, temperature, and wind speed. In addition, the integrated system includes a forecasting and decision-making module for real-time online evaluation, which provides warnings and makes decisions based on the monitoring information. From this, the monitoring information, evaluation results, maintenance decisions, and warning information can be input simultaneously into the bridge monitoring center and traffic emergency center to share the monitoring data, thereby facilitating evaluations and decision making using the system.
authors.affiliation: College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Mountain Bridge and Tunnel Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China.
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, Harbin 150080, China.
authors.forename: Dezhang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xie
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002681:China; D003252:Construction Materials; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D008422:Materials Testing; D012449:Safety; D055883:Structure Collapse / Q000517:prevention & control