Structural Health Monitoring, Real Applications of Bridges in Vietnam

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) aims to promptly detect defects and damage that affect the safety and operational quality of structures. Monitoring data helps to make timely and appropriate maintenance plans to maintain the safe working ability and efficient exploitation of the structure during its service life. SHM has been used for a long time in the aviation industry. Today, it is also applied to large scale structural systems, which is very important in modern construction. In Vietnam, SHM has been applied to a variety of structures such as large dams and large span bridges in recent decades. This study introduces an overview of some types of SHM being applied in Vietnam. Results of structural monitoring of actual projects, which are designed, deployed, installed, collected, analyzed and evaluated by the authors. The research contents of machine learning application for fault diagnosis, monitoring data processing are also introduced in this study.