Structural Health Monitoring of the Scaffolding Dismantling Process of a Long-Span Steel Box Girder Viaduct Based on BOTDA Technology

Yong Ding, Feng Xiao, Weiwei Zhu, Tao Xia
2019 Advances in Civil Engineering  
In this study, a distributed optical fiber sensing technique based on Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) is used to construct a complete bridge health monitoring system by continuously laying distributed sensing fiber lines in a steel box girder. The bridge scaffolding dismantling process is monitored to study the variation of the strain distribution. Additionally, a bridge finite element model is built to simulate the bridge scaffolding removed condition, and the strain
more » ... of the long-span steel box girder viaduct after scaffolding dismantling is compared with the measured values. This study provides a reference for monitoring the scaffolding dismantling process based on BOTDA technology.
doi:10.1155/2019/5942717 fatcat:76uxrvope5hohbutx23f6ss6fy