Response Modification for Enhanced Operation and Safety of Bridges
Principal Investigator:
Arturo Schultz, Professor, Civil Engineering
Co-Investigator:
- Steven Wojtkiewicz, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
Project Summary:
The integrity of bridges has become a major public safety concern. The goal of this project is to improve the safety and operation of bridges by developing response-modification technology for bridges and their components. The new technology will monitor structural health and also control stress paths in order to protect bridges from live loading. Such loads include heavy but legal trucks, overloaded and illegal trucks, or catastrophic loads, such as vehicle strikes, earthquakes, or blasts. This project represents a first step toward enhanced operation and safety of bridges; the overall initiative also includes the incorporation of traffic monitoring by video into the process.
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Project Details:
- Start date: 08/2009
- Project Status: Active
- Research Area: Infrastructure
- Topics: Bridges and Structures