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Can technology improve routine visual bridge inspections?

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: This paper discusses the role of visual inspections in the UK highways bridge inspection regime, and how current practice results in inspection data that are less reliable than they could, and should, be. Evidence that visual inspections in general are not totally reliable is discussed. Similar problems have been overcome in other areas, such as pavement inspection, by using technological aids during the data collection and inspection process. It is hoped that better bridge condition data could be obtained by making use of technology to assist the visual inspection process on bridges. Some of the ways in which images could be recorded to make the inspection process more reliable and reproducible are discussed, and a prototype system that has been developed with the aim of providing a full, high-resolution image record of the visual condition of a bridge, which is suitable for use, is presented.

Source: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Bridge Engineering

DOI: 10.1680/jbren.12.00022

Authors: Stuart G. McRobbie, M. Alex Wright, Andrew Chan

Institutions: Federation University, Transport Research Laboratory (United Kingdom), University of Birmingham

Language: English

Topic: Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring

Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2095239229

FWCI: 1.69

Cites: 26

Cited by: 33

Related to: 10