Monitoring, Control and Identification of Bridges by Dynamic Methods
Invited Lecturers
- Ahmet Emin Aktan (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA)
- 6 lectures on: Introduction to structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridges. Integration and implementation of analytical, experimental and information technologies for SHM purposes. Methods for designing instrumentation and data acquisition set-up for full-scale bridge testing application. Best practice guidelines for analytical modelling of bridges at various levels of detail.
- Francesco Benedettini (Università dell'Aquila, Monteluco di Rojo (AQ), Italy)
- 3 lectures on: Development and application of a maintenance program for a cluster of bridges of a Public Local Territorial Authority based on synergetic use of visual inspections and dynamical tests. Special application: crossover and veering phenomena in concrete twin-arches.
- Rune Brincker (University of Southern Denmark, Aalborg)
- 6 lectures on: Ideas and concepts of Operational Modal Analysis (OMA). Testing procedures. OMA signal processing. Frequency domain methods. Time Domain methods. Automated identification and other future aspects.
- Elsa De Sa Caetano (Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal)
- 6 lectures on: Basic concepts of signal processing and of Input-Output Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA). OMA testing of bridges and special structures. Finite element model correlation and updating. Applications to large suspension bridges and to lively footbridges. Continuous dynamic monitoring for alert and damage detection.
- Carmelo Gentile (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
- 6 lectures on: Monitoring techniques based on non-contact measurement of displacement time-histories by microwave interferometry. Correlation between EMA/OMA and FEA, sensitivity analysis, manual and semi-manual model tuning, model updating. Examples of dynamical characterisation and structural identification of bridges.
- Antonino Morassi (Università di Udine, Italy)
2 seminars on: Dynamic methods for damage detection in structures: general aspects and applications to bridges.
- Andrew Smyth (Columbia University, New York, USA)
3 seminars on: Monitoring techniques based on modal analysis supplemented with GPS measurements. Structural identification techniques using GPS data in fusion with accelerometer data.
- Rene Testa (Columbia University, New York, USA)
- 3 lectures on: Dynamic system monitoring of long-span bridges. Application of modal analysis to fatigue and/or crack propagation in steel bridges.