SCSHM benchmark study on bridge in-service structural monitoring

The mission of the Society of Civil Structural Health Monitoring (SCSHM, previously known as ISHMII) is to advance the understanding and application of structural monitoring methodologies for the management of civil infrastructure systems. To enable comparative and contrasting studies of various monitoring issues and technologies, the SCSHM Committee on Data-Enhanced Infrastructures Management (DEIMC) identified the need for benchmark problems in the areas of bridge and building structural monitoring. This article reports and briefly discusses the first benchmark study on in-service structural monitoring of bridges that was developed in collaboration with the University of Manitoba, and presents the structure details, study goals, data made available to the engineering community, and other relevant details. This paper has been submitted to the JCSHM as the outcome of the work of the DEIMC Committee of the SCSHM. However, since JCSHM does not publish at present papers without original experimental and or field monitoring components, data from this work cannot be used for publications in JCSHM.