Development of Health Monitoring System in Highway Bridges

DOI

10.2991/wcnme-19.2019.53How to use a DOI?

Keywords

collapse detection; sensing and detection system; highway bridges; arduino; and GUI

Abstract

Monitoring and detection of highway bridge structures health status has gained great attention for decades. Many attempts were made to introduce sensors to bridge structures to monitor and assess its status. The main idea of this project is to design and implement a system that is capable of sensing, monitoring and detecting flexural strength of a Pratt truss bridge. The work uses flex sensors with Arduino microcontroller to measure bridge bending at different angles and send these readings remotely through Bluetooth technology to a remote ground station. Two thresholds are considered here to determine the level of risk into three different levels. A buzzer is added to the proposed system to alarm the user that the bridge status is at emergency of imminent bridge collapse. A new powerful Graphic User Interface (GUI) is developed using visual studio programming to read user settings, and display and draw data of bridge flexural strength in a convenient way.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Baraa M. Albaker
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