bridge deck load testing using sensors and optical survey equipment桥面负载测试使用传感器和光学测量设备.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Civil Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 493983, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2012/493983 Research Article Bridge Deck Load Testing Using Sensors and Optical Survey Equipment Hubo Cai,1 Osama Abudayyeh,2 Ikhlas Abdel-Qader,3 Upul Attanayake,2 Joseph Barbera,2 and Eyad Almaita3 1 Division of Construction Engineering and Management, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA 2 Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA 3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Hubo Cai, hubocai@ Received 8 August 2011; Accepted 23 October 2011 ¨ Academic Editor: Polat Gulkan Copyright © 2012 Hubo Cai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Bridges are under various loads and environmental impacts that cause them to lose their structural integrity. A significant number of bridges in US are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, requiring immediate attention. Nondestructive load testing is an effective approach to measure the structural response of a bridge under various loading conditions and to determine its structural integrity. This paper presents a load-test study that evaluated the response of a prefabricated bridge with full-depth precast deck panels in Michigan. This load-test program integrates optical surveying systems, a sensor network embedded in bridge decks, and surface deflecti