Design of a Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges Conference Paper

abstract

• Bridges are bottlenecks in the railroad net, because of their limiting characteristics. To achieve a high load of the railroads old bridges especially are being pushed to their physical limit, regarding transfer speed, schedule, axle load and train length. Therefore monitoring of these strategic structures is getting more and more important. Installation costs of conventional sensors are expensive and time intensive. New wireless sensor platforms and distributed processing algorithms, going hand in hand with new or enhanced monitoring methods, promise an early damage detection and damage estimation. This paper designs a wireless sensor network for Structural Health Monitoring using commercially available wireless sensors to measure and extract vibration characteristics of bridges. The functionality of the network is verified in a laboratory experiment. 2011 IEEE.

name of conference

• 2011 Fifth International Conference on Sensing Technology

authors

• Hurlebaus, Stefan
• Mander, John

published proceedings

• 2011 Fifth International Conference on Sensing Technology

author list (cited authors)

• Reyer, M., Hurlebaus, S., Mander, J., & Ozbulut, O. E.

citation count

• 14

complete list of authors

• Reyer, M||Hurlebaus, S||Mander, J||Ozbulut, OE

publication date

• January 2011

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings of the International Conference on Sensing Technology, ICST  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/icsenst.2011.6137033

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781457701672

start page

• 515

end page

• 520

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1109%2Ficsenst.2011.6137033