Structural redundancy/collapse analysis, dynamic analysis and structural health monitoring of steel truss bridges

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The fracture critical members were identified by conducting the structural redundancy analysis of steel truss bridges and the effects of load-carrying capacity of concrete deck as well as member joint were investigated. The dynamic characteristics of truss bridges, classified into the global, local and coupled modes, were also clarified in detail by the experimental/theoretical modal analyses. The feasibility of vibration-based health monitoring of steel truss bridges, based on the field measurement as well as the impulse hummer test, was finally discussed by showing the fact that the damping ratios of coupled modes and the group of higher natural frequencies in local modes can be changed in identifiable amount by having local damages in truss diagonal members.