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Structural-Infrastructure Health Monitoring

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This chapter provides an overview of a Cyber Physical System (CPS) for civil infrastructural monitoring. Specifically, a prototype design and implementation of a cyber infrastructure framework for the monitoring of bridges along a highway corridor is described. The cyber infrastructure framework includes two basic components, namely a sensing and monitoring component and a cloud-based computational platform. The sensing and monitoring components includes a network of sensors and cameras instrumented along the highway corridor to capture vehicle loads and bridge responses. The computational tasks involve information modeling, database management and web services for supporting SHM applications. Selected examples are provided to illustrate the utilization of the CPS for assessing the fundamental behaviors of bridge structures. Additionally, the CPS provides a platform that enables research and development of new and innovative data-driven approaches for SHM.

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Acknowledgement

The research is supported by a collaborative project funded by the US National Science Foundation (Grant No. ECCS-1446330 to Stanford University and Grant No. CMMI-1362513 and ECCS-1446521 to the University of Michigan). This research is also supported by a Grant No. 13SCIPA01 from Smart Civil Infrastructure Research Program funded by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) of Korea government and Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA). The authors thank the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) for access to the Telegraph Road Bridge and for offering support during installation of the wireless monitoring system. The authors would also like to acknowledge the supports by Prof. Hoon Sohn of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF, MOLIT, MDOT, KAIA or any other organizations and collaborators.

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  1. VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Seongwoon Jeong

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Rui Hou & Jerome P. Lynch

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Kincho H. Law

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Jeong, S., Hou, R., Lynch, J.P., Law, K.H. (2020). Structural-Infrastructure Health Monitoring. In: Anumba, C., Roofigari-Esfahan, N. (eds) Cyber-Physical Systems in the Built Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41560-0_12

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