AbstractThe deflection of a bridge under a dominant load, called key deflection is an important parameter that reflects the load-bearing capacity of in-service bridges. The impact vibration test is a…

AbstractTo achieve a high-efficiency impact test for deck flexibility identification of bridges, a reference-free substructuring test strategy with a two-stage integration method is proposed, which can be adopted to integrate…

AbstractFlexibility plays an important role in bridge load-carrying capacity assessment. The flexibility of bridges has been extracted from the measured data of numerical impact testing and in laboratory experiments. Recently,…

IntroductionWith an increasing demand for infrastructure management, challenges exist in managing the stock of structures while building new ones. Bridge management is particularly challenging due to the large stock of…