Version 1
: Received: 20 February 2024 / Approved: 21 February 2024 / Online: 22 February 2024 (07:13:22 CET)
Version 2
: Received: 26 February 2024 / Approved: 28 February 2024 / Online: 28 February 2024 (13:53:40 CET)
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Kopiika, N. Digital Image Correlation for Assessment of Bridges’ Technical State and Remaining Resource. Preprints2024, 2024021251. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1251.v1
Kopiika, N. Digital Image Correlation for Assessment of Bridges’ Technical State and Remaining Resource. Preprints 2024, 2024021251. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1251.v1
Kopiika, N. Digital Image Correlation for Assessment of Bridges’ Technical State and Remaining Resource. Preprints2024, 2024021251. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1251.v1
APA Style
Kopiika, N. (2024). Digital Image Correlation for Assessment of Bridges’ Technical State and Remaining Resource. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1251.v1
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Kopiika, N. 2024 "Digital Image Correlation for Assessment of Bridges’ Technical State and Remaining Resource" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1251.v1
Abstract
Bridges enable communications and transportation of goods nationally and internationally, underpinning economic and social activities, thus they are pylons of our prosperity and mobility. Bridges worldwide are constantly subjected to physical wear, ageing, deterioration, hazards, environmental influences, and increased loading. Loss of performance and functionality of bridge structures would have a crucial impact on overall infrastructural resilience and would cause significant negative economic and social consequences. Monitoring their behaviour for different loading conditions relies on accurate estimations of the stress-strain state of various critical components and remaining capacities. These activities are of high importance for better planning lifespan prolongation, that is the extension of their service life and prevention of unforeseen collapses, in line with sustainability principles of well-informed maintenance. In many cases, access to the structure is limited or even impossible, which causes the need for the deployment of remote and contactless methods. One such innovative technique, which has recently attracted attention in scientific and practical applications is the digital image correlation (DIC). DIC is a contactless approach applicable for long-term measurements, which enables obtaining the full field of strains and deformations. Although the DIC approach has been widely used in world engineering practice for monitoring bridges and has proved to be a reliable and accurate method, there is a lack of systematic integral review on previous practical applications, revealing limitations and perspectives. This is the main motivation and novelty of this study, which will describe selected case studies, in which DIC was used on real full-scale bridge structures and propose improvements for the method.
Keywords
DIC; bridges; monitoring; contactless; stress-strain state
Subject
Engineering, Architecture, Building and Construction
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