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Drive-by Bridge Damage Monitoring: Concise Review

Authored by Ahmed Elhattab
Recently in the area of bridge health monitoring, there is a shift towards the use of indirect measurements of a passing vehicle to assess the structural integrity of bridge structures, which is known as “Drive-by Bridge inspection.” This approach is based on determining the dynamic characteristics of the bridge using the vehicle responses, such as bridge frequencies, bridge mode shapes, and even bridge stiffness and damping. The change in these characteristics over a period of time reflects the level of deterioration of the bridge’s health condition.
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