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Table 4 Application of dynamic testing in bridge monitoring

From: An Overview: The Application of Vibration-Based Techniques in Bridge Structural Health Monitoring

Testing

Excitation

Sensor

Dynamic parameter

Application

References

FVT

AVT

 

Impact hammer

Accelerometer

Natural frequencies, damping ratios, and mode shapes

Steel

Footbridge

Bayraktar and Şahin, (2014)

Rotational eccentric mass exciter, freight trains

Accelerometer and LVDT

Natural frequencies

Concrete bridge

Zwolski and Bień, (2011)

Suspension mass 60 tonne, ambient load

Triaxial accelerograph

Frequencies, mode shapes, and damping ratio

Cable-stayed bridge

Lee et al., (2017)

 

Light vehicles crossing the spans and wind

Triaxial force-balance accelerometers

Frequencies, mode shapes, damping ratio

256-m arch long-span steel bridge

Jo et al., (2011)

 

Pedestrian load

Piezoelectric accelerometers

Damping

Long and slender footbridge

Green and Cebon, (1993a)

 

Shaker

Piezoelectric accelerometers

Frequencies, mode shapes, damping factors

64 m of the reinforced concrete bridge

Dilena and Morassi, (2011)

 

Wind speed

Triaxial accelerometers GPs sensor

Natural frequencies and mode shape

2460 m span large-cable-stayed bridge

Magalhães et al., (2012b)

 

Running car with constant speed

Hybrid video cameras

Natural frequencies

Long suspension bridge

Nishimura et al., (2012)

 

Traffic and wind

Seismometer and GPS

Natural frequencies

391.25-m steel bridge

Green and Cebon, (1993b)

Impulse excitation (shock loads) and passing trains

Piezoceramic low frequency

Mode shapes, frequencies, damping ratios, and maximum amplitudes

Railway steel continuous truss bridge

Kilikevičius et al., (2018)