7 International Congress on
Computational Mechanics and Simulation,
11-13 December 2019, IIT Mandi, India.
TCCMS 2019 Paper ID: ICCMS19SD115130
Structural Health Monitoring of Bridge Deck by Signal
Processing of Measured Pulse Echo Test Data
‘Swarnabha Acharya”, Amalendu Maji® and Debasish Bandyopadhyay”
adavpur University, Kolkata ~ 700098, India
jadavpur University, Kolkata ~ 700098, India
“Jadavpur University, Kolkata ~ 700098, India
“Communicating Author, E-Mail: swarnabha.acharyya@igmail.com
Abstract. Deterioration of health of bridges is a growing concern among civil
engineers. Adoption ofa feasible and reliable method for structural health mon
itoring of conerete bridge deck is of paramount importance. The proposed paper
discussed a ease study of structural health assessment ofa concrete bridge deck.
est data, The test method.
involves generation of mechanical waves by using piczo-magnetially excited
based on signal processing of measured Pulse Echo
clement. Pulse echo tests data for both the A-scans and B-scans were collected
rovides the input velocity for subse
{quent B-scan, which provides the cross-sectional characteristics of the deck af
ter the required signal processing including noise filtration, The present case
study shows that both the sound conerete and defect can be identified by the
proposed nondestructive method with sufficient accuracy and have a promising
potential for practical application,
in real life bridge deck. The A-scan result
Keywords: Concrete Bridge deck, Nondestructive test, Pulse Echo, Structural
Health Monitoring.