Comprehensive Study of Moving Load Identification on Bridge Structures Using the Explicit Form of Newmark-β Method: Numerical and Experimental Studies

Autor: Solmaz Pourzeynali, Xinqun Zhu, Ali Ghari Zadeh, Maria Rashidi, Bijan Samali
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 12, p 2291 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs13122291
Popis: Bridge infrastructures are continuously subject to degradation due to aging and excess loading, placing users at risk. It has now become a major concern worldwide, where the majority of bridge infrastructures are approaching their design life. This compels the engineering community to develop robust methods for continuous monitoring of bridge infrastructures including the loads passing over them. Here, a moving load identification method based on the explicit form of Newmark-β method and Generalized Tikhonov Regularization is proposed. Most of the existing studies are based on the state space method, suffering from the errors of a large discretization and a low sampling frequency. The accuracy of the proposed method is investigated numerically and experimentally. The numerical study includes a single simply supported bridge and a three-span continuous bridge, and the experimental study includes a single-span simply supported bridge installed by sensors. The effects of factors such as the number of sensors, sensor locations, road roughness, measurement noise, sampling frequency and vehicle speed are investigated. Results indicate that the method is not sensitive to sensor placement and sampling frequencies. Furthermore, it is able to identify moving loads without disruptions when passing through supports of a continuous bridge, where most the existing methods fail.
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