This research proposed a contribution for bridge inspection procedures at of a short-term monitoring plan of the dynamic behavior of the concrete road bridge with the use of 100 Hz GPS receivers associated with various signal filtering...
moreThis research proposed a contribution for bridge inspection procedures at of a short-term monitoring plan of the dynamic behavior of the concrete road bridge with the use of 100 Hz GPS receivers associated with various signal filtering techniques. The study was conducted in the service bridge located on the highway Fernão Dias (BR-381). The procedure inspection proposed was based on the use of two satellite GPS signals, by applying the Phase Residual Method (PRM), and the temporal analysis of the residuals of the double difference phase from the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT), Type I Chebyshev Band-Pass. The dynamic behavior of the central span of the bridge was described by extracting the frequency and amplitude values of the vertical deflections from the filtered GPS data (residues), in three sampling periods of 1 minute. The frequency values found ranged from 0.5 Hz to 8 Hz in the three sampling periods as well as in the FFT, CWT and Chebyshev Type I Band-Pass filters. The maximum vertical displacement peak values were around 6 mm. These values coincided with the vertical displacement and amplitude values recorded by the classical instrumentation with accelerometers, vertical displacement transducers, finite element modeling and static and dynamic load test performed on the central span deck of the instrumented bridge. Finally, it could affirm that the procedures proposed, besides being able to be used as a preliminary step of inspection of the rigid bridge's deck enabled the detection of millimetric vertical dynamic displacements and their frequencies of vibration.
