SHM-based F-AHP bridge rating system with application to Tsing Ma Bridge

Abstract

This paper aims at developing a structural health monitoring (SHM)-based bridge rating method for bridge inspection of long-span cable-supported bridges. The fuzzy based analytic hierarchy approach is employed, and the hierarchical structure for synthetic rating of each structural component of the bridge is proposed. The criticality and vulnerability analyses are performed largely based on the field measurement data from the SHM system installed in the bridge to offer relatively accurate condition evaluation of the bridge and to reduce uncertainties involved in the existing rating method. The procedures for determining relative weighs and fuzzy synthetic ratings for both criticality and vulnerability are then suggested. The fuzzy synthetic decisions for inspection are made in consideration of the synthetic ratings of all structural components. The SHM-based bridge rating method is finally applied to the Tsing Ma suspension bridge in Hong Kong as a case study. The results show that the proposed method is feasible and it can be used in practice for long-span cable-supported bridges with SHM system.

Keywords

structural health monitoring (SHM) / bridge rating method / fuzzy based analytic hierarchy approach / criticality and vulnerability rating / Tsing Ma Bridge

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Acknowledgments

The work was financially supported by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University through its niche area program on performance-based structural health monitoring of large civil engineering structures, and the Hong Kong Highways Department through a contract research on bridge health and engineering.

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