/technologies/robotics/b/blog/posts/infrastructure-improvement-the-smart-bridgeIowa State University&#39;s Bridge Engineering Center student Justin Dahlberg get out in the filed to install sensors on US Highway 65/Oak Street bridge (via Iowa State University) Since the sudden collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in M...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/robotics/b/blog/posts/infrastructure-improvement-the-smart-bridgeFri, 27 Apr 2012 20:53:30 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:27f9e189-128b-4020-bda5-df047333750cDAB1<p>Hi Cabe,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The instrumentation on this bridge will also collect important information on the normal stess and strain of the bridge during weather and traffic loads.&nbsp; To my knowledge, no one has every really looked at the minute data of a bridge in operation.&nbsp; Most of the design guides just have nominal guides and rules of thumb, but with this data, they can actually see if thier models are any good.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It will be very interesting to see what the data shows about what really goes on during a day in the life of a bridge.</p><p>Hopefully they will expand the program to do instrumentation on each type of bridge currently being used across the world so we can verify the mechanical models and collect real time aging of the structure.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Good post,</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=14095&AppID=36&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">