Proceedings of the 10th International Operational Modal Analysis Conference (IOMAC 2024)
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Investigating the Performance of a Wide-Deck Bridge
The paper focuses on a 3-span viaduct recently erected about 16 km far from Milan, Italy. The bridge superstructure consists of a steel-concrete composite girder supported by two RC piers and abutments. The br...
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Monitoring System with a High Number of Accelerometers: Optimization of Installation and OMA
The presented case study refers to the dynamic monitoring system − with only triaxial accelerometers − just installed on the Serra Cazzola viaduct (province of Agrigento, Sicily). The bridge has total length o...
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Long-Term Dynamic Monitoring of a Large Cathedral: Environmental Effects and Seismic Performance
Vibration-based monitoring is receiving increasing attention in Civil Engineering but practical applications on heritage structures are still not frequent. Since October 2018, a dynamic monitoring system is ac...
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DYMOND: A Matlab Toolbox for the Dynamic Monitoring of Bridges According to the Lombardia Regional Guidelines
A recent collaborative project between Politecnico di Milano and Regione Lombardia included the definition of guidelines for the structural monitoring of bridges and the subsequent implementation in nine pilot...
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Vibration Testing and Monitoring of Historical Towers
Ancient masonry towers – built in different ages for different purposes and using different construction practices – are generally sensitive to dynamic actions such as bell swinging and earthquakes. Particular...
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Vibration Testing and Finite Element Modelling of a Steel-Concrete Composite Bridge
This paper presents the results from the dynamic behavior assessment of Olona West Bridge. This highway bridge is located in the province of Varese (Lombardy region, Italy) and crosses the Olona river. It cons...
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Assessment of Structures Using Dynamic Monitoring and Auto-Encoders: Application to Baixo Sabor Dam
An increasing attention has been recently payed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of Civil Engineering structures. When compared to traditional OMA-based techniqu...
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OMA-Based FE Model Validation of a Lively Footbridge
The paper describes selected results from a comprehensive experimental and numerical study on the serviceability assessment of a footbridge over the Lambro River near Milano (Italy). The 3-span footbridge, for...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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ND testing and establishing models of a multi-span masonry arch bridge
The Olla bridge, built in the second half of the nineteenth century, is an arch bridge consisting of five brick masonry arches with stone masonry piers. The bridge crosses the Stura river along the State Route...
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P3P: a software suite for autonomous SHM of bridge networks
This paper presents the development of a new software code for the fully autonomous management of permanent integrated Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems installed in highway bridge structures. The cod...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Vibration Monitoring and Seismic Response of the Milan Cathedral
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a promising approach for assisting the condition-based structural maintenance of heritage buildings, via the continuous analysis of diagnostic data collected by a network ...
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Estimating the Tensile Force in Ancient Metallic Tie-Rods from Vibration Tests
One of the distinctive characteristics of the Milan Cathedral is the presence of iron ties under the vaults of all 5 naves: those tension bars date back to the age of construction and still have an important r...
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Vibration-Based Structural Health Monitoring of a Historic Arch Bridge
The Brivio bridge is a reinforced concrete tied-arch bridge composed of three spans of 44 m that crosses the Adda River in the Province of Lecco (northern Italy). The structure was completed in 1917, and – despit...
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Effect of Changing Environment on the Dynamic Characteristics of an Overpass
Selected results collected in the continuous dynamic monitoring of a 3-span overpass using MEMS accelerometers are reported in the paper. The investigated structure is a steel-concrete composite bridge charact...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Continuous Dynamic Monitoring and Automated Modal Identification of an Arch Bridge
The Brivio bridge, completed in 1917, consists of three reinforced concrete (RC) tied arches spanning 44.0 m each. The bridge crosses the Adda river on the route between Lecco and Bergamo and still represents a c...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Monitoring Reinforced Concrete Arch Bridges with Operational Modal Analysis
The paper presents the first results of the vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring strategy implemented on the historic Brivio bridge, within a joint research between Lombardy Region and Politecnico di Mila...
