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Smart Rock Technology For Real-Time Monitoring Of Bridge Scour And Riprap Effectiveness -- Design Guidelines And Visualization Tools, Genda Chen, Yan Tang, Yizheng Chen, Zhaochao Li, Chuanrui Guo, Liang Fan, Yi Bao, Xiuyan Hu, Matthew Klegseth
Smart Rock Technology For Real-Time Monitoring Of Bridge Scour And Riprap Effectiveness -- Design Guidelines And Visualization Tools, Genda Chen, Yan Tang, Yizheng Chen, Zhaochao Li, Chuanrui Guo, Liang Fan, Yi Bao, Xiuyan Hu, Matthew Klegseth
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
This study aims to further develop and demonstrate the recently-proposed smart rock technology for scour depth and protection effectiveness monitoring. A smart rock is one or two stacked magnets encased in a concrete sphere with a specially-designed rotational mechanism. Design guidelines, rotational mechanisms, remote measurement tools and localization algorithms of smart rocks were developed and validated at three bridge sites. The effect of steel reinforcement in bridge piers/deck on the orientation of gravity-controlled magnets was negligible. The localization accuracy with a single smart rock met a general requirement of less than 0.5 m in engineering applications. The spherical smart rock …