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Experimental Evaluation of Vibration Response Based Bridge Damage Detection Using Wireless Sensor Networks

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Increasing use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide opportunity for developing low cost smart systems for structural health monitoring such as bridges. Using WSN, a large number of sensors can be deployed for damage detection. In literature we find many simulation studies to study the parameters for bridge monitoring and damage detection. There are very few works that are deployed in real world scenarios. In this paper a set of commercially available Mica2 motes equipped with accelerometer are deployed on two bridge models in the laboratory to collect the vibration response from the bridge models. The vibration response data collected on intact model is compared with the damaged model. The thresholds are established using the histogram approach on the collected vibration data for intact bridge model. The results show the proper characterization of damage detection.

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This work is partially supported by Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan and the Transportation and Crowd Management Center of Research Excellence (TCMCORE) at Umm Al-Qura University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We also thank the Science and Technology Unit at Umm Al-Qura University for their continued logistic support.

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  1. IICT, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Bhawani Shanker Chowdhry, Faisal Karim Shaikh & Shamshad Ali

  2. TCMCORE, STU, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

    Faisal Karim Shaikh & Emad Felemban

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Chowdhry, B.S., Shaikh, F.K., Ali, S. et al. Experimental Evaluation of Vibration Response Based Bridge Damage Detection Using Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 85, 499–510 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2751-1

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