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Drone-Enabled Remote Sensing For Transportation Infrastructure Assessment, Colin Brooks
Drone-Enabled Remote Sensing For Transportation Infrastructure Assessment, Colin Brooks
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Unmanned aerial systems (UAS or “drones”) are a rapidly developing technology that can help meet the needs of transportation agencies for reliable, repeatable data that can save money and increase safety for the data collection process. By taking advantage of flexible platforms that can deploy a variety of sensors, transportation agencies and their information suppliers can help meet these data needs for operations, asset management, and other areas. Location-specific data on infrastructure condition and distresses can help with improved management of assets.
In this presentation, recent applied research led by a Michigan Technological University team is reviewed, with a focus …
Lab-On-Sensor For Structural Behavior Monitoring: Theory And Applications, Genda Chen
Lab-On-Sensor For Structural Behavior Monitoring: Theory And Applications, Genda Chen
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There are over 600,000 bridges in the U.S. National Bridge Inventory (NBI). Nearly 50% of them rapidly approach their design life and deteriorate at an alarming rate, particularly under an increasing volume of overweight trucks. Visual inspection as the current practice in bridge management is labor intensive and subjective, resulting in inconsistent and less reliable element ratings. Lab-on-sensor technologies can provide supplemental mission-critical data to the visual inspection for both qualitative and quantitative evaluations of structural conditions, and thus critical decision-making of cost-effective strategies in bridge preservation.
In this presentation, the design and operation characteristics of highway bridges are first …