Long-term bridge health monitoring focusing on the Mahalanobis Distance of modal parameters

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 628; no. 1; pp. 12055 - 12062
• Main Authors: Kim, Chul-Woo, Morita, Tomoaki, Wang, Ziran, Sugiura, Kunitomo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 09.07.2015
• Subjects: Bridge maintenance; Bridges; Decision making; Developing countries; LDCs; Parameter identification; Physical properties; Physics; Regression analysis; Statistical analysis; Structural health monitoring; Vibration measurement; Vibration monitoring

Maintaining civil infrastructure, including bridges, has been a keen technical issue in developed countries and will surely be one in developing countries in the near future. An effective maintenance strategy strongly depends on timely decisions on the health condition of the structure. Bridge healt...