Wind Pressure and Strain Measurements on Bridges. I: Instrumentation/Data Collection System
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Abstract
The University of Colorado at Denver has been studying the effect of wind pressure on historic bridges to determine the structural adequacy of these structures. A number of historic bridges have been field instrumented and tested to determine the member forces due to actual lateral wind pressures. This paper focuses on the instrumentation/data collection system developed for the project and field data collection for one bridge. The instrumentation/data collection system needed to be low cost due to the project budget and needed to obtain measurements at a sampling rate sufficiently rapid to capture short-duration wind gusts.
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Acknowledgments
The writers wish to acknowledge the State Historical Fund of the Colorado Historical Society for partial funding for this effort under Grant No. UNSPECIFIED2004-M1-019 from September 5, 2003 to December 31, 2004; Yvonne Piquette and Tom Huston of the City of Fruita, Colo. for their cooperation; and Jim VanLiere, P.E., M.ASCE, for valuable assistance in the field. This paper represents ongoing research in historic bridge preservation that is underway at the University of Colorado at Denver.
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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 22 • Issue 1 • February 2008
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Received: Mar 31, 2006
Accepted: Sep 19, 2006
Published online: Feb 1, 2008
Published in print: Feb 2008
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