TitleHealthMonitoringFrameworkforBridgesCivil.docVIP

Health Monitoring for Civil Infrastructure A. Elgamal, J.P. Conte, and M. Fraser Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0085, USA S. Masri Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531 T. Fountain and A. Gupta San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505, USA M. Trivedi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0407, USA M. El zarki School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 ABSTRACT: Internet technologies are increasingly facilitating real-time monitoring of Bridges and Highways. The advances in wireless communications for instance, are allowing practical deployment for large extended systems. Sensor data, including video signals, can be used for long-term condition assessment, traffic-load regulation, emergency response, and seismic safety applications. Computer-based automated signal-analysis algorithms routinely process the incoming data and determine anomalies based on pre-defined response thresholds. Upon authentication, appropriate action may be authorized for maintenance, early warning, and/or emergency response. In such a strategy, data from thousands of sensors can be analyzed with real-time and long-term assessment and decision-making implications. Addressing the above, a flexible and scalable (e.g., for an entire Highway system, or portfolio of Networked Civil Infrastructure) software architecture/framework is being developed and implemented. This framework will network and integrate on-line real-time heterogeneous sensor data, database and archiving systems, computer vision, data analysis and interpretation, numerical simulation of complex structural systems, visualization, probabilistic risk analysis, and rational statistical d