Vibration-based structural health monitoring of a model truss bridge

Vibration-based methods with accerleration sensors are playing an increasingly important role in structuctural health monitoring of modern bridges. This master thesis investigates how the change in the truss bridge’s dynamic response when altering the physical properties. The study will be carried out experimentally by performing analytical and experimental modal analyses. The analyses will cover three cases involving the truss model bridge. These will cover one intact case and two different damage cases where the physical properties of the bridge is altered. First, we created numerical model of a truss bridge along with a model bridge of the same bridge design. Second, we run an analytical…