Towards net zero carbon bridge engineering through SHM

This paper presents an overview of recent research in structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridge engineering infrastructure in the UK and Ireland aimed at promoting net zero carbon civil engineering infrastructure. This research is particularly focused on the FlexiArchTM and ArchIMEDES, incorporates a computer vision deformation monitoring tool which is used to capture the structural response (deflections and hinge formation) of the bridge and provides the neural network with raw data on which it makes remote, real-time informed predictions of prevalent scour. To overcome this limitation of traditional structural health monitoring, Population-Based Structural Health Monitoring (PBSHM) aims to group similar structures together to form a ‘population’ so that data from one or more structures can be used to make an inference about the condition of the structure of interest.