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Real-Time Health Monitoring System For Mast-Arm Sign Support Structures, Andrew David Smith
Real-Time Health Monitoring System For Mast-Arm Sign Support Structures, Andrew David Smith
Master's Theses (2009 -)
There has been an ongoing study conducted by Marquette University and supported by the Wisconsin Highway Research Program that is seeking to understand the risk of fatigue-induced fracture in the connections of mast-arm sign support structures. This study has been brought on by recent problems encountered with the connections contained in, and the in-service performance of, several cantilevered mast-arm sign support structures. A resulting recommendation of phase one in this effort was to monitoring an in-service cantilevered mast-arm sign support structure.
The health monitoring system developed in this thesis effort includes a grouping of strain gages (full-bridge arrangements) positioned around …