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A cable stayed footbridge with a glass fiber reinforced polymer girder has been erected in the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa). The main purpose of this project is to close the gap between complex real-world applications in civil engineering and simplified laboratory experiments. The bridge is a research platform in the fields of active, semiactive and passive vibration mitigation, structural health monitoring, integrated distributed smart sensing and advanced structural materials. The bridge will be equipped with several interconnected sensors and actuators. This paper discusses different aspects of such instrumentation and communication techniques.
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Motavalli, M., Feltrin, G., Gsell, D., Meyer, J. (2005). Instrumentation of the Indoor Cable Stayed Bridge at Empa. In: Ansari, F. (eds) Sensing Issues in Civil Structural Health Monitoring. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3661-2_35
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