The maintenance and repair of bridges (and other large scale infrastructure projects) is a
major area which could benefit from Structural Health Monitoring technology. Inspections on
bridges can take a long time and require many people, and are therefore conducted
infrequently. This low frequency of inspection leaves the chance that damage and
dangerous critical failures can occur during the long timeframes between inspections. It
might even be the case that an inspection fails to identify sub-surface damage. Therefore …

Bridges are valuable infrastructure assets that are challenging and expensive to maintain.
State-of-the-art data-based bridge SHM solutions look to use bridge response data for
condition assessment and damage detection. Data-based SHM methods can be limited in
their application as they require large datasets to train models effectively, and most bridges
lack the available data for the approaches to work. Further, it would be expensive and
unrealistic to collect the required datasets to employ data-based methods to entire bridge …