YSU Research Program: Real-Time Stress Monitoring of Highway Bridges
Description
This collaborative research aims to develop a real–time stress monitoring system for highway bridges with a secured wireless sensor network. The program monitors the stress of highway bridges in Mahoning County with a light–weight and reliable wireless sensor network by applying state of the art technologies in wireless networks, sensor technologies, peer–peer communications, embedded systems, and power managements. The near term goal is to collect wireless sensor data under different traffic patterns from local highway bridges. The long term goal is to build a non–destructive structural health monitoring system and derive a structural health index to predict the remaining life span of a highway bridge in order to save human lives, avoid costly failure, provide timely restoration, prevent unnecessary reconstructions, and minimize disruptions of traffic.
Status: Planned
Timeframe: Short
Stakeholders
Inventory
| ODOT District 4 Maintenance Garages |
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| ODOT District 4 Maintenance Vehicles |
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| ODOT Infrastructure Monitoring Equipment |
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Services
| MC09–Infrastructure Monitoring: ODOT District 4 |
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Interfaces
| Source | Flow | Destination | Status |
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| ODOT District 4 Maintenance Garages | infrastructure monitoring sensor control | ODOT Infrastructure Monitoring Equipment | Planned |
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| ODOT District 4 Maintenance Garages | maint and constr vehicle system control | ODOT District 4 Maintenance Vehicles | Planned |
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| ODOT District 4 Maintenance Vehicles | infrastructure conditions data | ODOT District 4 Maintenance Garages | Planned |
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| ODOT Infrastructure Monitoring Equipment | infrastructure monitoring sensor data | ODOT District 4 Maintenance Garages | Planned |
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