[HTML][HTML] A review of bridge scour monitoring techniques

LJ Prendergast, K Gavin - Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical …, 2014 - Elsevier
The high profile failure of the Malahide Viaduct in Dublin, Ireland, which is a part of the EU
TEN-T network of critical transport links, was caused by foundation scour. Scour is a …

Underwater inspection of bridge substructures using sonar and deep convolutional network

S Hou, D Jiao, B Dong, H Wang, G Wu - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Bridges are vital structures for worldwide physical infrastructure networks, and efficient
inspection methods are needed to reveal and evaluate the health conditions of damaged …

Drive-by scour monitoring of railway bridges using a wavelet-based approach

PC Fitzgerald, A Malekjafarian, D Cantero… - Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper numerically investigates the feasibility of using bogie acceleration measurements
from a passing train to detect the presence of bridge scour. The Continuous Wavelet …

Condition assessment of reinforced concrete bridges: Current practice and research challenges

T Omar, ML Nehdi - Infrastructures, 2018 - mdpi.com
One quarter of bridges in Canada and the United States need repair. The present study
provides a critical overview of the state-of-the-art existing condition assessment techniques …

Scour damage detection and structural health monitoring of a laboratory-scaled bridge using a vibration energy harvesting device

PC Fitzgerald, A Malekjafarian, B Bhowmik… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
A vibration-based bridge scour detection procedure using a cantilever-based piezoelectric
energy harvesting device (EHD) is proposed here. This has an advantage over an …

Electromagnetic sensors for underwater scour monitoring

A Maroni, E Tubaldi, N Ferguson, A Tarantino… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Scour jeopardises the safety of many civil engineering structures with foundations in
riverbeds and it is the leading cause for the collapse of bridges worldwide. Current …

Determining the presence of scour around bridge foundations using vehicle-induced vibrations

LJ Prendergast, D Hester, K Gavin - Journal of Bridge Engineering, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
Bridge scour is the number one cause of failure in bridges located over waterways. Scour
leads to rapid losses in foundation stiffness and can cause sudden collapse. Previous …

Structural health monitoring for performance assessment of bridges under flooding and seismic actions

LJ Prendergast, MP Limongelli… - Structural …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Bridges can be subjected to damaging environmental actions due to flooding and seismic
hazards. Flood actions that result in scour are a leading cause of bridge failure, while …

A comparison of initial stiffness formulations for small-strain soil–pile dynamic Winkler modelling

LJ Prendergast, K Gavin - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction (DSSI) is an area of much ongoing research and
has wide and varied applications from seismic response analysis to offshore wind …

Surrogate-assisted finite element model updating for detecting scour depths in a continuous bridge

Y He, JP Yang, J Yu - Journal of Computational Science, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the Kriging surrogate-assisted method is proposed to improve the
computational efficiency in finite element model updating (FEMU) based scour depth …