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Dynamic monitoring of the “St. Francesco da Paola” swing bridge in Taranto: experimental and information based technologies |
G.C. Marano, F. Trentadue, G. Quaranta, G. Monti, G. L. Cascella, D. Cascella, F. Tristano
Significant advances in the development and customization of various sophisticated technologies for structural monitoring have emerged during the last decade. Technologies for instrumentation, monitoring, load testing, nondestructive evaluation and/or characterization, three-dimensional finite element modeling and various types of analyses have become available at a reasonable cost. Within this framework, the paper focuses on the hardware and information based technologies that we are developing in order to monitor the “St . Francesco da Paola” swing bridge in Taranto (Apulia region, Italy). In doing this, the adopted sensors network for dynamic monitoring is initially presented. Subsequently, the information technologies that we address in this paper cover the spectrum of efforts related to data acquisition, archival and management. |