Remote Inspection of Bridges

Mission Statement/Objectives

Recent scientific and technological advancements have enabled a more efficient structural condition assessment of bridges, mainly through the implementation of intelligent inspection strategies. These intelligent strategies can in advance prevent the failure of critical components as well as identifying mitigation actions to avoid future failures. Based on the activities carried out during 2022-2025, the task group will expand the activities in the following three directions:

• Develop enhanced data support (e.g., open data sharing website) for researchers and practitioners working on remote and autonomous inspection of bridges.
• Develop data assimilative decision-making framework by multiple information modalities collected by remote and autonomous inspection approaches.
• Clarify the role of remote and autonomous inspection of bridges in the context of diagnosis and prognosis.

The basic findings from the previous activities regarding technologies, platforms, and methodologies are applied to the case study testbed, clarifying the role of information with different quality and level of detail in the context of diagnosis, prognosis, and decision-making.

Scope & Limitation

This TG is focused on bridges with mainly two structural materials (metallic and concrete). The in-field application activities will be performed in different countries and continents.

Expected Project Output
The expected outputs per task are the following:

• Structural Engineering Document (SED) about decision-support based on remote inspection of bridges.
• 2 journal publications about remote inspection-based decision-support applied to case study testbeds in the field.
• Promote a special session on a IABSE conference, focused on the outputs of this task.

Expected Date of Completion
The expected target dates of completion per task are the following:

• September 30, 2029

Start Date: 1 January 2025
Target Date of Completion: 30 September 2029

Chair
Yasutaka Narazaki, China

Vice Chair
Vedhus Hoskere, USA

Members

Franziska Schmidt, France

Asad ur Rahman, USA

Diogo Ribeiro, Portugal

Joaquim Tinoco, Portugal

Jose C Matos, Portugal

Anna Rakoczy, Poland and USA

Gledson Tondo, Germany

Mingyu Shi, China

Rafael Cabral, Portugal

Tran Quang Minh, Portugal

João Ventura, Portugal

Yanlin Guo, USA

João Fonseca, Portugal

Adriana Trias , USA

Ali Mirzazade, Sweden

Ricardo Santos, Portugal

Piotr Olaszek, Poland

Fernando Moreu, USA

Shiori Kubo, Japan