EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE PRESENCE AND MONITORING PERIOD ON BRIDGE HEALTH MONITORING

Bridge Health Monitoring is a method of evaluating the ability of a bridge to perform its required task (also called "Fitness for Purpose") by monitoring the response of the bridge to the traffic loads it has to withstand. This report is Stage 3 of a research project carried out between 1998 and 2000, that has involved the long-term Health Monitoring and Fitness For Purpose assessment of the Atiamuri Bridge over the Waikato River, on State Highway in between Tokoroa and Taupo, North Island of New Zealand. The investigation had the principal purposes of investigating and refining the Health Monitoring methodology for New Zealand road bridges. Issues such as the necessary sample size, duration of monitoring, effect of multiple-presence events, and appropriate methodologies for determining the Ultimate Traffic Load Effect (UTLE) were investigated. (a)

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  California Transit Association

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• Authors:
  • HELDT, T J
  • WELCH, M J
  • Heywood, R J
  • ROBERTS, W S
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 116 p.
• Serial:
  • TRANSFUND NEW ZEALAND RESEARCH REPORT
  • Issue Number: 175
  • Publisher: California Transit Association
  • ISSN: 1174-0574

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridges; Continuous structures; Evaluation and assessment; Loads; Maintenance; Management; Mathematical analysis; Surveillance
• Geographic Terms: New Zealand
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 6471: Analysis (math); 3455: Bridge; 9006: Continuous; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 5567: Load; 3847: Maintenance; 8079: New Zealand; 9101: Surveillance
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Bridges and other structures; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00963657
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-478-11583-0
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 3 2003 12:00AM