This paper reviews historical developments and recent challenges in full scale bridge testing
and introduces results-and hypotheses related to an ongoing bridge testing research …

It is becoming an important social problem to make maintenance and rehabilitation of
existing short and medium span (10-20 m) bridges because there are a huge amount of …

We introduce a new concept that enables a decision analyst to explore and quantify the
benefits of decision alternatives that exceed the scope of a pre‐posterior decision or value of …

A structural strain flexibility identification method by processing the multiple-reference impact
testing data is proposed. First, a kind of novel long-gauge fiber optic sensor is developed for …

This chapter presents an overview on the state-of-the-art procedures for load tests on
bridges and on the applicable sensing and data acquisition technologies. Best practices for …

The second half of the 20th century was affected by the introduction of electronic data
processing. The numerical methods appeared to be capable of solving every engineering …

In this paper, although there are some useful monitoring methods for short and medium
span (10-20m) bridges based on the qualitative or quantitative information, mainly two …