IABMAS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON BRIDGE HEALTH MONITORING
Purpose of the Committee:
Bridge Health Monitoring (BHM) is a paradigm promising to innovate bridge operations, maintenance and security. BHM requires an integrated systems engineering approach, recognizing the importance of each engineered, socio-technical and natural element that affects and interacts within a bridge-highway. Heuristics, periodic visual inspections, controlled tests and NDE are integrated together with a long-term measurement regime for the intrinsic, environmental and live loads and the corresponding changes in bridge responses and structural characteristics. Objective data, information and heuristics are accumulated and integrated for analysis, interpretation and decision-making. Data and images may be acquired, mapped and processed throughout a bridge in real-time, merging all ITS technologies and objectives with bridge structural engineering objectives. In this manner incidents, accidents and other hazards may be detected, mitigated if possible, and at least their impacts on bridge reliability may be immediately evaluated. The goal is to manage bridge operations, security and maintenance within a single-platform and under an integrated asset-management umbrella, effectively and optimally. Obviously, BHM promises a renaissance in bridge engineering and potential impact on the management of all infrastructure systems.
The Committee will first organize the related BHM Sessions of the IABMAS'04 Kyoto International Conference to highlight the inherent advantages of BHM paradigm, and document the promising implementations throughout the world. Over the longer term, the community will be reaching a consensus on nomenclature, on the structuring of the application scenarios, on the classification of the application technologies and integration needs, and most importantly, on the minimum quality requirements for meaningful applications. The Committee will be forming various sub-committees to publish papers, reports and books for disseminating experiences and consensus guidelines for BHM as these are developed.
The Committee will be connecting with other bridge research, bridge testing, health monitoring, ITS, safety, security and infrastructure management committees.
Members:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Central Florida
PO Box 162450
Orlando, FL 32816-2450, USA
ETH Zurich
HILE33.3, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093,
Zurich, Switzerland
University of Alberta
9105 116th St Markin/CNRL Natural Resources Engineering Facility 3-143
T6G 2W2 Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
Technical Consultant and COO
Prospect Solutions, LLC
9 Stedman Way
Loudonville, NY 12211, USA
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Civil, Materials, and Enviromental Enigneering,
847 W. Taylor Street, 60607, Chicago, USA
Fazlur Khan Endowed Chair
Center for Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS Center)
117 ATLSS Drive, Imbt Labs
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18015-4729, USA
SMARTEC SA
Via al Molino 6
CH-6916 Grancia, Switzerland
Utah State University
4110 Old Main Hill, Utah State University,
84322-4110, Logan, United States
Smartsensys
3210 Countrybend Ln,
Champaign, IL61822, USA
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Guseong-Dong, Yuseong-Gu, 291 Daehak-Ro, W1-2,
KAIST, 34141, Daejeon, South Korea
Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Ueberlandstrasse 129, 8600, Duebendorf, Switzerland
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 6C1, 22030, Fairfax, United States
University College Dublin
G68, Newstead Building, Belfield, UCD, Dublin 4, Ireland
University of Sheffield,
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering,
Sir Frederick Mappin Building - Mappin Street,
Sheffield S1 3 JD, UK
COWI A/S
Parallelvej 2
2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Palo Alto Research Center
Orlando, USA
Rutgers University
500 Bartholomew Road, 8854, Piscataway, United States
Duke University
305 Teer Engineering Building, 27708, Durham, NC, USA
MCS, DGC, EPFL
GCB-2 (ECUBLENS)
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Wonkwang University
Jeollabuk-do, Iksan, Sin-dong, Iksan-daero, 460 KR
South Korea