This book addresses the experimental and numerical study of vibration-based damage detection (VBDD) techniques in structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridge superstructures. VBDD techniques are global non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques. The advantage of VBDD techniques over local NDE techniques is that VBDD techniques can assess the condition of an entire structure at once and are not limited to accessible components. The experiments on a half-scale, simply supported steel-free bridge deck and two full-scale, simply supported prestressed concrete girders demonstrated that small...
This book addresses the experimental and numerical study of vibration-based damage detection (VBDD) techniques in structural health monitoring (SHM) o...