Structural Health Monitoring and Safety Evaluation System for Sutong Bridge

This paper introduces the design achievements of the structural health monitoring and safety evaluation system for Sutong Bridge.In the light of the principal advances having been made in the research of structural health monitoring systems for bridges in the recent years,and on the basis of the comprehensive comments on the key issues related to the systems remaining further research,the paper describes in considerable details the composition,objective,monitoring point layout considerations,monitoring instrument selection,damage identification and safety evaluation methods of the structural health monitoring and safety evaluation system of Sutong Bridge,and also discusses the development trend of structural health monitoring and safety evaluation systems for long span bridges.