This tutorial paper aims to introduce the topic of operational modal analysis to non-
specialists on the subject. First of all, it is stressed the relevance of this experimental …

Contactless structural monitoring has in recent years seen a growing number of applications
in civil engineering. Indeed, the elimination of physical installations of sensors is very …

Contemporary footbridges are often designed as slender structures and tend to be
susceptible to human induced vibrations. Codes of practice have been developed enabling …

Civil engineering structures are generally supposed to have long operation life spans during
which they are submitted to many factors, both environmentally and human-induced, that …

The findings of an extensive literature survey focusing on bridge structural health monitoring
(SHM) deployments are presented. Conventional, maturing, and emerging technologies are …

During the last decade, many vibration-based structural health monitoring systems have
been successfully implemented in different structures such as bridges, towers, stadia and …

The paper reviews some of the most recent aspects involved in the dynamic testing and
continuous monitoring of bridges. This includes a discussion of testing techniques …

This paper is concerned with an improved Vehicle Scanning Method (VSM) for modal
properties identification of bridges with allowances for damping and road roughness. Owing …

The monitoring systems presently available for vibration observation of civil engineering
struc-tures are normally based on networks of accelerometers and strain gages distributed …

The construction in Portugal of a relatively long and slender footbridge prone to pedestrian-
induced vertical and lateral vibrations motivated an extensive study for the design and …