YSU Research Program: Real-Time Stress Monitoring of Highway Bridges
Description
This collaborative research aims to develop a real-time stress monitoring system for highway bridges with a secured wireless sensor network. The program monitors the stress of highway bridges in Mahoning County with a light-weight and reliable wireless sensor network by applying state of the art technologies in wireless networks, sensor technologies, peer-peer communications, embedded systems, and power managements. The near term goal is to collect wireless sensor data under different traffic patterns from local highway bridges. The long term goal is to build a non-destructive structural health monitoring system and derive a structural health index to predict the remaining life span of a highway bridge in order to save human lives, avoid costly failure, provide timely restoration, prevent unnecessary reconstructions, and minimize disruptions of traffic.
Status
Planned
Timeframe
Short
Geographic Scope
Maintenance and Construction
Service Scope
Costs: $100,000.
Stakeholders
Inventory
ODOT District 4 Maintenance Garages
ODOT District 4 Maintenance Vehicles
ODOT Infrastructure Monitoring Equipment
Services
MC12-1 - Infrastructure Monitoring - ODOT
Functional Areas
- The center shall remotely control and collect data from fixed infrastructure monitoring sensors that monitor vibration, stress, temperature, surface continuity, and other condition measures.
- The center shall monitor maintenance vehicle-based mobile sensors and data logging devices that collect information on current infrastructure condition.
- The center shall remotely collect data from vehicle probes using short range communications equipment and process this data to identify potential pavement degradation, potholes, and other rough or adverse road surface conditions.
- The center shall process the collected information and use it to monitor the condition of pavement, bridges, tunnels, associated hardware, and other transportation-related infrastructure.
Roadway Infrastructure Monitoring
- The field element shall include infrastructure condition monitoring sensors that monitor the condition of pavement, bridges, tunnels, associated hardware, and other transportation-related infrastructure (e.g., culverts), under maintenance center control.
- The field element shall include infrastructure condition monitoring sensors that monitor the condition of pavement, bridges, tunnels, associated hardware, and other transportation-related infrastructure (e.g., culverts), under maintenance vehicle control.
- The field element shall provide operational status for the infrastructure condition monitoring sensors to the maintenance center.
- The field element shall provide operational status for the infrastructure condition monitoring sensors to the maintenance vehicle.
- The field element shall provide fault data for the infrastructure condition monitoring sensors to the maintenance center for repair.
Interfaces
Standards
| SDO | Document ID | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| AASHTO/ITE/NEMA | View List | NTCIP Center-to-Field Standards Group | Group |
Operational Concepts
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