Field validation of a wireless structural monitoring system on the Alamosa Canyon Bridge

Jerome Peter Lynch; Arvind Sundararajan; Kincho H. Law; Anne S. Kiremidjian; Ed Carryer; Hoon Sohn; Charles R. Farrar

doi:10.1117/12.482712

18 August 2003 Field validation of a wireless structural monitoring system on the Alamosa Canyon Bridge

Jerome Peter Lynch, Arvind Sundararajan, Kincho H. Law, Anne S. Kiremidjian, Ed Carryer, Hoon Sohn, Charles R. Farrar

Proceedings Volume 5057, Smart Structures and Materials 2003: Smart Systems and Nondestructive Evaluation for Civil Infrastructures; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.482712
Event: Smart Structures and Materials, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A state-of-art design of a wireless sensing unit, which serves as the fundamental building block of wireless modular monitoring systems (WiMMS), has been optimized for structural monitoring sensing applications. Employing wireless communications as a primary means of data transfer, the high-cost but fragile cables of traditional tethered monitoring systems is eradicated resulting in a low-cost yet flexible monitoring infrastructure. An additional innovation is the inclusion of advanced embedded microcontrollers to accommodate the computational tasks of engineering and decision support analysis. To quantify the performance of the wireless sensing unit, field validation upon a full-scale benchmark structure is undertaken. The Alamosa Canyon Bridge in New Mexico is instrumented with wireless sensing units and a traditional cable-based monitoring system in parallel. Forced vibrations are applied to the bridge and monitored using both (wireless and tethered) data acquisition systems. Recorded time-history measurements are used to identify the modal properties of the structural system. The performance of the wireless sensing units is compared to that of the commercial wire-based monitoring system.

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Jerome Peter Lynch, Arvind Sundararajan, Kincho H. Law, Anne S. Kiremidjian, Ed Carryer, Hoon Sohn, and Charles R. Farrar "Field validation of a wireless structural monitoring system on the Alamosa Canyon Bridge", Proc. SPIE 5057, Smart Structures and Materials 2003: Smart Systems and Nondestructive Evaluation for Civil Infrastructures, (18 August 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.482712

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