The newly-developed self-mobilizing space frame system is the equipment possible to adjust frame width and height per various road tunnel sizes. Main purpose of this system is to maintain road tunnels without blocking lanes. Therefore, it does not affect traffic and completes maintenance work quickly as compared to current method.

In this study, an automated cable non-destructive test (NDT) system was proposed to monitor the steel cable. Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) method was applied for the cable inspection. A multi-channel MFL sensor head was fabricated using Hall sensors and permanent magnets. A wheel based Cable climbing robot was used to improve the accessibility to cable. In addition, remote data transmission and robot control were possible by applying the Wireless LAN communication. Finally, developed element techniques were integrated to MFL based Cable Climbing NDT system, and the field applicability of the integrated cable NDT system was verified through a field test.

Degree of damage of the bridge and safety level is closely related to the characteristics of the lifetime maximum load effect that occur on the bridge. Maximum load effect is dominated by traffic characteristics such as heavy vehicle composition and daily traffic volume. The purpose of the study is to analyze the structural characteristics of vehicle loading based on survey data collected, in which some major factors, such as vehicle configurations, vehicle wieghts, traffic modes by the probabilistic approach. Then, this study perform analysis of the safety level as compared with design criteria domestic highway bridges the current regulations are enclosed.

By using the accelerometer, there are two techniques of measuring the response from structures: forced vibration and ambient vibration method. Recently, ambient vibration technique is successfully being used for bridges, buildings, dams, and mechanical structures. In this study, we briefly introduce and describe a health monitoring system which measures and predicts the structural integrity of the entire structure through the measurement of ambient vibration characteristics and tilt of the structure by using the domestic-made high precision accelerometer. The high precision servo accelerometer is applied in inertial navigation system of the various weapon systems such as missiles, tanks, and armored vehicles.

This paper presents a new method for conveniently estimating static displacements of a structure based on its vibration data. In the proposed method, structural static displacements can be obtained using a normalized modal flexibility matrix assisted by a known mass perturbation method in order to overcome several shortcomings of existing displacement sensors such as the limitation on installation due to surrounding environments and the inconvenience to the public during static loading tests. For validating the feasibility of the proposed method, experimental validation was carried out on a simply-supported beam model. It was found that the proposed method can be an effective alternative to conventional static displacement estimation.

The field application of air-coupled impact echo (IE) is evaluated in this study, where an actual in-service concrete bridge deck is tested. An IE test equipment set is deployed as part of an effort to develop new rapid measurement method. The IE data are presented as two-dimensional frequency maps. For verification of the location of shallow delamination damage, eight drilled core samples were extracted from the test area. The results show reasonably good agreement with the drilled cores.

Using an experimental test of frequency response function, it was found that the heavy-weight impact noise and the concrete slab acceleration response was amplified by interaction of the finishing mortar and the resilient material of floating floor in low frequency range.

As the building maintenance and safety management have recently been brought to attention, the utilization of non-destructive testing methods for internal inspection of concretes is increasing. Non-destructive testing methods, unlike typical destructive testing methods that deconstruct or cut the building in case of issues such as pores, heterogeneous material, cracks or any such equivalent issues inside/outside the building, refer to the testing methods for pores, heterogeneous material, or defectiveness occurring in the specimen without changes or destruction of internal structure using ultrasound, radiation, electromagnetism, fluid, heat, or light. In this study, among such non-destructive testing methods, the impact echo method was used for an experiment to estimate the steel rebar location and thickness in the concrete mock member.

The objective of this project is to develop FEM or Frame models which can be used to compute the dynamic behavior of PC girder bridge associated with the change of tension force in tendons, to overcome the limitation of general structure analysis program.

In this study, a new damage detection method using an inclinometer which can directly measure rotational displacement is developed and its effectiveness investigated. In order to verify the attractive features of the proposed method such as an increase in sensitivity and the data loss minimization, numerical analyses were performed by the uniform load surface curvature (ULSC) method, which is the damage detection method based on the modal flexibility matrix. For numerical analysis, 2 m simply supported beam, which has 20 elements and 21 nodes is considered. From the results of the eigenvalue analysis, the damage locations were perfectly detected in each damage case. It shows that the damage detection using rotational displacement is theoretically possible. From the result of numerical simulations, the damage locations were detected exactly. When compared with the detection method based on vertical displacements obtained from accelerometers, it is shown that using the rotational displacement is much more sensitive than using the vertical displacement. Overall, when compared with the accelerometer data, the damage detection performed by an inclinometer was more sensitive.

Dynamic characteristics of large civil infrastructures have been monitored for safe operation and efficient maintenance of the structures. To measure vibration data, the conventional system uses cables causing very expensive costs and inconvenience for installation. Therefore, various wireless sensor nodes have been developed to replace the conventional wired system. However, there remain lots of issues to be resolved such as power supply, data loss, data security, etc. In this study, smart distributed sensor node (SDSN) was developed to measure vibration data. The SDSN is basically timely synchronized one-channel data acquisition system. It consists of its local time clock with high accuracy and SD memory card or local data storage. It is designed for temporal measurement, not long-term monitoring, since it can operate several hours using embedded batteries. Laboratoy tests were carried to verify the performance of the developed SDSN compared with conventional wired sensors. Several application examples for large civil infrastructure were also suggested.

Displacement is one of the most fundamental responses, containing useful information regarding dynamic behavior of a structure. Traditional displacement measurement devices such as LVDT have difficulties in using for full-scale civil structures mainly due to the installation inconvenience. The use of laser-based measurements is rapidly increasing; however, the high equipment cost prevents its wider adoption. This study uses a vision-based displacement measurement system as a cost-effective and practical solution for field testing. The vision-based system is used to measure vertical deflections of a railway bridge for high-speed trains to validate its applicability for the bridge deflection measurement.

The anchor bolts of pot bearing are broken at the fixed end of the lamp bridge which is beside the main bridge. And the pot bearing is moved off about 30mm. The site measurement were performed in order to find out the cause. The measurement scheme and the cause analysis of the movement will be introduced. The proper reinforcement and repair will be ready in according to the results of the cause analysis.

The trend of heaviness causes the increase in the number of overloaded vehicles on a bridge, which is a difficulty in the decision of design live load. However, there is no established system to control the overloaded vehicles. In this paper, a management system to control the total number of heavy vehicles on a bridge using BWIM. The traffic management system uses the control methods based on approaching time intervals.

Based on the study of bridge live loads and traffic modes for using WIM datas, it was found that the structural integrity of bridges was damaged by overloaded heavy vehicles. The objective of the study is to investigate the statistical characteristics of vehicle loadings based on survey data collected, in which some major factors, such as vehicle configurations, vehicle weights, traffic modes, etc., are incorporated. The vehicle load effects due to single presence of heavy truck are also tested with several short- span bridges and probabilistic characteristics of current design practices are evaluated.

The results from air-coupled impact-echo(IE) tests into concrete slab should be interpreted and represented so that field engineers can effectively check the condition of the structure. To improve these issues, IE data in the form of “4-D spectrum plot” can be utilized to identify the information of concrete defects effectively. The concept of the 4-D plot is introduced, and the effects of image parameters (e.g. frequency range, transparency index) are experimentally investigated in this study.

This paper aims to assess the structural damage caused by fatigue and random impact load using a statistical pattern recognition technology. For experimental studies, a model of cable-stayed bridge was built, and a shaker was to inflict load on the model. Data for damage detection were obtained from the signals of the model on which repetitive load and earthquake load were imposed. Applying the statistical pattern recognition technology which constitutes a control chart by using Mahalanobis distance, a commonly used method for the measurement of statistical distance, we preliminarily assessed structural damage. On the basis of the damage assessment, we developed a Improved Mahalanobis Distance(IMD) to be applicable to a cable-stayed bridge which was damaged by random impact load. Then, we evaluated its performance for the assessment of structural condition. The evaluation showed that the control chart.

In this study, the 3D-analysis of multi-functional fishway with square form of underground passage and circle type of underground passage are carried out by SAP2000 soft ware. In case of width 2m, 1m of vertical cross-section structure, the width 300mm× length 300mm and the width 1,000mm× length 400mm of square type were experimental parameters. The structural analysis results show stress of square form passage for water pressure alleviation by % compared to that of a square form passage. The stability of square type of concrete is more beneficial than that of circle type of concrete.

This paper aims to prove the effectiveness of MR damper as a smart control device when controlling the earthquake invoked transverse vibration of a two-span simple bridge. Applying a 40% of Kobe earthquake and a 120% of El-centro on a target structure, experiments were performed under two conditions: passive on (current on) and Lyapunov control algorithm embedded. MR damper's control performance was analyzed and contrasted under each different condition. It was concluded that MR damper was effective in controlling the vibration of the bridge.

Image created by stack imaging spectral amplitudes based on the impact-echo (SIBIE) method is largely one-dimensional because a single frequency domain spectrum for wave reflected below a single point of impact is used to create the image. The method has limitations for representing defects in a cross section of a concrete structural element using two-dimensional coordinates. This study focused on defect detection and visualization in a concrete structural element using multiple impacts and accumulated SIBIE. An impactor was used to induce energy at multiple points at positioned at prescribed intervals along the structural element. A modified SIBIE method was applied to the collected data of each point and the modified SIBIE images were accumulated to generate one image (an accumulated SIBIE image).