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原文传递 Bridge Monitoring - Applications for Alabama.

题名：	Bridge Monitoring - Applications for Alabama.
作者：	J. M. Stallings;
关键词：	bridge monitoring,bridge rating and load testing(brlt);barge impacts, hurricanes, streambed scour, overweight vehicles, bridge inspections, navigable waterways;
摘要：	Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) is continuously searching for ways to improve the efficiency and safety of Alabamas transportation system. With the rapid growth of electronics and monitoring technology it is important to ask whether new technologies can provide cost effective improvements to the management of that system. ALDOT studied that question and created this document to identify bridge monitoring applications that are of interest to ALDOT. By identifying applications of interest, ALDOT hopes to encourage vendors to focus product development and marketing efforts on those applications. ALDOT considered a large number of possible applications of bridge monitoring systems. Applications with the most immediate promise for providing clear benefits have the common characteristic of detection of a significant event. Events of interest are those that have a reasonable likelihood of occurring and have the potential to make a bridge unsafe within a short time. Barge impacts, hurricanes, streambed scour, and crossing of overweight vehicles are specific events of interest. ALDOT is also interested in monitoring technologies and equipment that can improve in-house capabilities. Alabama invested in equipment, technology, and people in 1991 and established the Bridge Rating and Load Testing (BRLT) Section of the Maintenance Bureau. The BRLT Section in conjunction with the Bridge Bureau and a rigorous bridge inspection program gives ALDOT a wide range of capabilities to address special conditions that are not available in the department of transportation of many other states. ALDOT is interested in keeping these capabilities at the state-of-the-art. / Supplementary Notes: Sponsored by Alabama Dept. of Transportation, Montgomery. / Availability Note: Product reproduced from digital image. Order this product from NTIS by: phone at 1-800-553-NTIS (U.S. customers); (703)605-6000 (other countries); fax at (703)605-6900; and email at orders@ntis.gov. NTIS is located at 5301 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, VA, 22312, USA. / NTIS Prices: PC A02/MF A02 / NTIS In-house Control Codes: dotour;12111,1101
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