Monitoring highway traffic of long-span bridges based on WIM data

Zhiwei Chen; You Lin Xu; Kaiyuen Wong

Monitoring highway traffic of long-span bridges based on WIM data

Zhiwei Chen, You Lin Xu, Kaiyuen Wong

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Abstract

The Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong is a suspension bridge with a main span of 1,377 m. The bridge deck carries a dual three-lane highway on the upper level of the deck and two railway tracks and two carriageways on the lower level within the bridge deck. The highway traffic condition and the vehicle loading effect on the bridge have been closely monitored by a Wind and Structural Health Monitoring System (WASHMS) since 1997. By using the traffic data collected by weigh-in-motion (WIM) stations of the WASHMS, this paper analyzes the highway traffic condition and vehicle loading of the Tsing Ma Bridge in terms of vehicle traffic volume, vehicle traffic composition, axle load spectrum and gross vehicle weight spectrum. The measured axle load spectrum and gross vehicle weight spectrum are compared with the design spectrum.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Structural Engineering, ISSE 2012
Pages	1589-1595
Number of pages	7
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2012
Event	12th International Symposium on Structural Engineering, ISSE 2012 - Wuhan, China Duration: 17 Nov 2012 → 19 Nov 2012

Conference

Conference	12th International Symposium on Structural Engineering, ISSE 2012
Country/Territory	China
City	Wuhan
Period	17/11/12 → 19/11/12

Keywords

Highway loading
Structural health monitoring
Suspension bridge
Weigh-in-motion

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering

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