Remote Health Monitoring for Asset Management

A key challenge to managing fixed assets such as bridges and other transportation infrastructure is monitoring their condition over time. Under typical service conditions, deterioration resulting from traffic loading and difficult environmental conditions can result in a reduction or loss of service of a particular asset, or even life threatening and dangerous failures. Extreme events such as earthquakes and floods present a still greater challenge in that the service condition of the asset may change abruptly and without warning, leaving managers without key information they need to respond to the event. The goal of this project is to develop remote health monitoring technology that will provide managers and owners with timely information on the condition of civil infrastructure assets. This will be achieved through the development of an instrumented pile that will provide real-time data on bridge scour and seismic activity, allowing for the remote monitoring of bridge conditions by key managers and engineers.

• Record URL:
  http://www.intrans.iastate.edu/mtc/index.cfm/research/project/project/-1196957956

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Missouri Department of Transportation

  1617 Missouri Boulevard
  P.O. Box 270
  Jefferson City, MO  United States  65102

  University of Missouri, Columbia

  Department of Civil Engineering
  Columbia, MO  United States  65211

  Midwest Transportation Consortium

  Iowa State University
  Ames, IA  United States  50010-8664
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Missouri, Columbia

  Department of Civil Engineering
  Columbia, MO  United States  65211
• Principal Investigators:

  Washer, Glenn

• Start Date: 20070501
• Expected Completion Date: 20080430
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: RiP Project 14348

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridge design; Bridge foundations; Bridges; Condition surveys; Real time data processing; Research projects; Scour; Seismicity; Service life
• Uncontrolled Terms: Remote monitoring system
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Data and Information Technology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01460285
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Midwest Transportation Consortium
• Files: UTC, RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 1:22PM