Abstract
Monitoring the dynamic responses of bridge structures has received considerable attention. It is important to synchronously measure both the quasi-static and dynamic displacements of bridge structures. However, the traditional accelerometer method cannot capture the quasi-static displacement component, although it can detect the dynamic displacement component. To this end, a novel composite instrument of a smartstation was proposed to monitor vibration displacements of footbridges. Full-scale experiments were conducted on a footbridge to validate the feasibility of the composite instrument-based monitoring method. A Chebyshev filter and wavelet algorithms were developed to process the composite instrument measurements. It was concluded that the measurement noise of the composite instrument was mainly distributed in a frequency range of 0–0.1 Hz. In two case studies with displacement peaks of 5.7–10.0 mm and 1.3– 2.5 mm, the composite instrument accurately identified the quasi-static and dynamic displacements. The composite instrument will be a potential tool for monitoring structural dynamics because of its enhanced overall performance.
Highlights
The measurement of three-dimensional quasi-static and dynamic displacements of bridge structures is an important task for monitoring their structural health [1]
A revolutionary surveying system using a composite instrument was proposed to monitor threedimensional vibration displacements of a footbridge. Is it capable of detecting quasi-static and dynamic displacements of the footbridge, but it can obtain nanosecond-level time information for each record, which is valuable for the fusion of multi-sensor data fusion
Experiments were conducted on the Nottingham Wilford Suspension Bridge to verify the measurements of vibration displacements of footbridges using the
Summary
The measurement of three-dimensional quasi-static and dynamic displacements of bridge structures is an important task for monitoring their structural health [1]. GNSS technologies are capable of identifying dynamic displacement components (instantaneous deformation) at millimeter-level accuracy with a sampling rate up to 20 Hz, even 100 Hz [2,3] When they are used to identify quasi-static displacement components induced by temperature changes or vehicle loads, their measurement accuracies are limited within a relatively low range from 10 to 20 mm because of multipath signal errors [4,5]. The collocated sensors consisting of RTS, GNSS and an accelerometer were adopted to measure displacements in a stiff footbridge in Greece, and were found to be capable of measuring three-dimensional displacements with amplitudes of a few millimeters and identifying oscillation frequencies [15]. The quasi-static and dynamic displacements of the footbridge were accurately detected by the composite instrument
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